Oh yeah...I've never actually climed Grandfather mountain...I guess that's about the only "popular" NC mountain that I haven't climbed.

9/5/2011 10:17:53 PM

My grandma was a north carolina history teacher and my granny lived in nags head, between the two of them and their love of travel I don't think there is an NC landmark I haven't seen.

9/5/2011 10:22:26 PM

I go to the highland games on Grandfather Mountain some years.

9/5/2011 11:42:32 PM

Biltmore House

9/6/2011 12:14:22 AM

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"Acid park is a night time thing."

Yes and no. It's bonkers at night, but there are a ton of details you can see in daylight that don't show up in the reflectors, and when Vollis is there you can go inside the property and inspect stuff close-up without worrying about getting hassled.

9/6/2011 3:30:00 AM

Country Doctor Museum.

9/6/2011 3:39:03 AM

My parents took me on an OBX vacation when I was a teenager and we hit all the lighthouses. Looking back now I'm really glad we did that. It was awesome just taking ferries, driving along the ocean on small roads, and eating fresh seafood every night.

I've never been to Mt. Mitchell and it's been way too long since i've been to the caverns to even say i've been.

9/6/2011 9:16:39 AM

Mystery Hill
Acid Park
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (I don't know how I haven't seen that)
Mt Mitchell

It has been a long time for me on a lot of the other stuff. I need to go back to Linville.

9/6/2011 9:28:15 AM

lol @ Mystery Hill

is that considered a Landmark?

9/6/2011 9:41:38 AM

The only NC landmark I have never seen but would like to is Ellicott's Rock.

Others I have not seen but have no desire to are:
Hatteras Lighthouse
Tryon Palace
Mt. Mitchell
Acid Park

9/6/2011 9:48:20 AM

ive never been to north carolina

9/6/2011 9:51:25 AM

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"lol @ Mystery Hill is that considered a Landmark?"

9/6/2011 9:54:22 AM

Never been to even heard of Tryon Place

[Edited on September 6, 2011 at 10:24 AM. Reason : not from NC though]

9/6/2011 10:15:51 AM

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"lol @ Mystery Hill is that considered a Landmark?"

I don't know, it was mentioned earlier so I listed it. I don't know what the fuck it is

^Tryon Palace is a letdown, but the town around it is very pretty.

9/6/2011 10:17:26 AM

9/6/2011 10:54:41 AM

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"devils stomping ground"

There really is not much to it. I mean, it is cool for what it is, but don't go expecting much.


Also, Brown Mountain. I've been there but I've never seen the lights. Seen pretty much everything else in this thread except Tryon Palace and Acid Park.


Rockingham and North Wilkesboro have both been closed for NASCAR races for some time now and I'm pretty sure N. Wilkesboro isn't used for anything. The last time I drove by there it still had the old Winston Cup signs up:




A good track to check out, if you're into racing, is Bowman Gray in Winston Salem.

9/6/2011 12:24:35 PM

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"Mystery Hill"

Wow. Forgot about that place. I always saw the billboards as a kid and wanted to stop there, but we never did. I hear it sucks from people that have been.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ6R2Wuq6Vc

So it's almost as cool as a McDonald's playground but they probably charge $8 a head.

[Edited on September 6, 2011 at 1:02 PM. Reason : -]

9/6/2011 12:59:47 PM

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"Old Salem is dope, how could you not have gone? Moravian cookies, man."

The only good thing about Old Salem is the cookies. It's like the poor man's version of Colonial Williamsburg.

I have never been to Tryon Palace. I haven't been to the lighthouse near Wilmington either. Can't really think of anything else I've missed.

9/6/2011 1:19:02 PM

my mom had a book of interesting places in NC and one I have never been to but would like to see is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Tramping_Ground



[Edited on September 6, 2011 at 1:26 PM. Reason : photo]

9/6/2011 1:23:45 PM

They still race small races at N. Wilkesboro.

9/6/2011 2:08:01 PM

And Tryon Palace did burn, but part of it is still original.

9/6/2011 2:11:28 PM

^^speedway associates ended their lease early and all remaining events for this year were cancelled

[Edited on September 6, 2011 at 2:15 PM. Reason : ended it back in May]

9/6/2011 2:15:19 PM

ive seen 4 out of 7 lighthouses... the only one I still really want to see is cape hatteras.


also, what the hell is acid park? ive been here 15 years and never heard of it

9/6/2011 7:31:24 PM

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hasn't heard of Acid Park

9/6/2011 7:35:17 PM

STOP CALLING IT ACID PARK!!!

9/6/2011 7:38:03 PM

I'm just glad someone finally got it right, it's Devil's Tramping Grounds, as a Chatham county native I was highly offended. Although yes it is fairly lame and trashed now but if you get lucky you might get to party with drunk rednecks there at night and they can tell you about chatham's other famous spot Carolina Hill

9/6/2011 8:49:37 PM

So that article said that no one has ever stayed the whole night there...is that true?

9/6/2011 8:54:58 PM

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"The only good thing about Old Salem is the cookies. It's like the poor man's version of Colonial Williamsburg. "

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[Edited on September 6, 2011 at 8:56 PM. Reason : Tokyo]

9/6/2011 8:56:05 PM

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"So that article said that no one has ever stayed the whole night there...is that true?"

No people have stayed there overnight. Tue legend goes if you sleep in the circle you will wake up outside of it in the morning but I don't know of anyone personally who has tested the theory. It's a tough one to test since it's technically on private property so you might get shot at haha.

[Edited on September 7, 2011 at 2:04 AM. Reason : Wrong slash derp]

9/7/2011 2:02:33 AM

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"I'm just glad someone finally got it right, it's Devil's Tramping Grounds, as a Chatham county native I was highly offended."

It's always been known as the Devil's Stomping Ground as long as I've known about it. That's what my 1st grade teacher called it.

[Edited on September 7, 2011 at 4:01 AM. Reason : and she knew everything.]

9/7/2011 3:56:27 AM

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"It's always been known as the Devil's Stomping Ground as long as I've known about it. That's what my 1st grade teacher called it. [Edited on September 7, 2011 at 4:01 AM. Reason : and she knew everything.]"

clearly wikki trumps your 1st grade teacher! j/k j/k was your teacher from chatham? i've never heard it called stomping grounds

9/7/2011 8:45:59 AM

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"And Tryon Palace did burn, but part of it is still original."

There's a small part of the original foundation that you can see in the basement. The rest of it is the rebuild. The only thing real in there are the antiques they've collected, it's more a museum than anything.

9/7/2011 8:57:57 AM

Who wants to go on a camping trip to the Devil's Tramping Ground?

9/7/2011 9:00:45 AM

lol Ernie, sorry your childhood memory sucks

Oh wait, so Acid Park and the Devil's Stomping Ground are the same place? I am confused I've heard of Devil's Stomping Ground but not Acid Park.

[Edited on September 7, 2011 at 9:56 AM. Reason : a]

9/7/2011 9:55:45 AM

9/7/2011 10:16:05 AM

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"Carolina Hill"

I haven't heard that term in 10 years. There's some strange shit that goes on there. We rode through there in HS and there were dead goats hanging in the trees.

9/7/2011 10:48:20 AM

haha yeah i went out there one halloween and there was a goat skull on a stick in the ditch not far from where you turn off austin bridge rd onto carolina hill. one of my friends wanted to grab it but i politely declined. the other times i rode out there nothing happened but one of my friends decided to sneak through the woods to the house and got a shotgun pulled on him

9/7/2011 11:08:04 AM

lol Wolfpackgirl

I'm sorry you haven't been to Old Salem since you were a child

You faggot

9/7/2011 5:49:33 PM

If you're going to troll me, at least spell my name correctly

9/7/2011 5:51:12 PM

How is that trolling

I sincerely think you are a faggot

What a cop out

9/7/2011 5:53:19 PM

LOL

9/7/2011 5:54:10 PM

bump because we had never been to Biltmore and we were tossing around the idea of going sometime until I saw ticket prices

No way I'm paying $50+/person to go there

9/20/2011 7:48:07 AM

If you are going to go to Biltmore, either go in the spring when everything is in bloom or at Christmas when they have up 5000 trees and all the balla decorations.

I had never been to the Outer Banks until a few years ago and it quickly became one of my favorite places in NC. Also never been to New Bern at all, been meaning to go sometime soon though.

Other places I haven't seen mentioned yet are Fort Fisher, USS North Carolina or Reed Gold Mine. I highly recommend Fort Fisher if you enjoy history and/or nature. It's beautiful and you can take the fun ferry ride to get there. There is a huge sea wall that you can walk on that takes you way out into the water, and you can climb to the top of the Buchanan Battery to get a great view of the surrounding area.

9/20/2011 10:40:53 AM

The World's Largest (functional) Frying Pan has a capacity for 365 chickens. It weighs 2 tons, is 15 feet in diameter and holds 200 gallons of cooking oil. It can be viewed every day in the "Town Square" in Rose Hill and has been used to cook chickens for various festivals and fund-raisers for over 4 decades. The pan was built in 1963 by Queensboro Steel Corp in Wilmington as a tribute to the area's burgeoning poultry industry. If you want to see the World's Largest Frying Pan - only Rose Hill can make such a cast-iron claim.

9/20/2011 10:47:22 AM

^ I hate the be the poor fuck that had to clean that thing after said festivals

9/20/2011 11:04:36 AM