North Carolina Transportation Museum
A museum focusing on history that moves you - steam locomotion, boats, the Wright Brothers, and train rides! Middle and High School students can learn Morse Code, and forms of pre-telegraph communication.
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North Carolina Zoo
Reservations must be made at least a week before the visit date.
Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area
Managed by the Eno River State Park, the Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area offers a quick escape into nature with trails winding through forests of mountain laurel and rhododendron.
Pettigrew State Park
Pettigrew State Park showcases the rich habitat of Lake Phelps and the Scuppernong River, home to wintering tundra swans and cypress trees with cavernous archways.
Pilot Mountain State Park
Pilot Mountain State Park centers around the iconic geologic knob that serves as a beacon for visitors. Education programs are available for all grades and large class sizes.
Pisgah View State Park
Currently not open. The initial land needed has been acquired for the park between 2019 and 2021.
President James K. Polk State Historic Site
North Carolina’s only presidential site, focused on our nation's 11 president and the issues that dominated his term: the Mexican-American War, settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute, and California's annexation. The family enslaved at least eleven known peoples of African descent.
Raven Rock State Park
Raven Rock State Park is home to many kinds of wildlife including mammals, birds, raptors, reptiles, and amphibians. Led by a ranger, this program focuses on mammals of the park including deer, raccoon, opossums, squirrels, fox, coyotes, bobcats and more.
Reed Gold Mine
The site of the first documented discovery of gold in North America that launched the country's first gold rush. Visitors can pan for gold today and explore the mine.
Rendezvous Mountain
The forest around Rendezvous Mountain is diverse with animal life that prowls the woods both day and night.
Roanoke Island Festival Park
Step into history at Roanoke Island Festival Park, a 27-acre site where you can explore life as it was for the first English settlers in 1585. Costumed interpreters bring the Settlement Site and the Elizabeth II ship to life, while interactive exhibits at the American Indian Town and Adventure Museum offer a hands-on experience for all ages.
Salmon Creek State Natural Area
Located in Bertie County just south of Edenton and about 60 miles northeast of Greenville, Salmon Creek State Natural Area encompasses approximately 1,300 acres of upland forest and cypress-gum swamps near the confluence of the Chowan River and Albemarle Sound.
Singletary Lake State Park
Singletary Lake State Park is a Bay Lake and was originally developed for group camping. Now visitors can hike, fish, and paddle.
Somerset Place
Somerset Place offers a comprehensive and realistic view of 19th-century life by interpreting the lives of enslaved and free persons on an antebellum North Carolina plantation. Originally, this unusual plantation included more than 100,000 densely wooded, mainly swampy acres bordering the five-by-eight-mile Lake Phelps, in present-day Washington County.
Stone Mountain State Park
Located in Alleghany and Wilkes counties 60 miles northwest of Winston-Salem, Stone Mountain State Park is home to the 600-fo