Oh, The Places We’ll Go!

Need ideas for surviving your own summer with kids in the Charlotte, NC area? If you have anything to add, let me know!

Close to home:

Harrisburg Park
Discovery Place
Nature Museum/Freedom Park
Imaginon
Lightrail/The Green/”Uptown adventure”
Whitewater center
Mallard Creek Park
Reedy Creek Park
Nevin Park & spraygrounds
Ribbon Walk
Free/cheap morning movies (some libraries are doing free movies – check your local branch)
Birkdale spraygrounds
McGill Rose Garden
Jetton Park
Latta Plantation
Charlotte History Museum
Monkey Joe’s/Bounce U
Library Story Time
Mini Golf
Mint Museum free Tuesdays
Aviation Museum
Bicycling or walking on the greenway
UNCC Botanical gardens
Winghaven Gardens
Memorial Garden Concord
Raptor Center
Pony rides
Farmer’s market
Recycling Center Tour
Ray’s Splash Planet

A little further out (45 min – an hour or so):
Lazy 5
Pick your own fruit
Plaza Fiesta
Dan Nicholas Park
Transportation Museum
Reed Gold Mine
Schiele Museum
Cane Creek Park
Daniel Stowe
Village Park in Kannapolis
Crowder’s mountain
Hiddenite Emerald Mine

Day Trips
NC zoo
Riverbanks zoo
Asheville/Waterfalls, etc.
Carowinds
Old Salem
Edventure
Greensboro Children’s Museum
Tweetsie