Things to Do in Charlotte
Free things to do, museums, walks, public art, outdoor ideas and day trips — with changing hours and prices left to the organizations that keep them current.
Museums and places to visit
Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
Most museum collections are assembled. This one was lived with.
/things-to-do/bechtler-museum/Charlotte Museum of History and the 1774 Alexander Rock House
The oldest building in Charlotte is not in Uptown. It is a stone house on an eight-acre campus in east Charlotte, finished in…
/things-to-do/charlotte-museum-of-history/Historic Rosedale
The neighbours called it Frew's Folly. Archibald Frew, Charlotte's postmaster and tax collector, finished his Federal-style house…
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Levine Center for the Arts (Uptown cultural cluster)
Two blocks of South Tryon Street hold four cultural institutions, which makes this the most efficient cultural afternoon in…
/things-to-do/levine-center-for-the-arts/Carolina Raptor Center, Huntersville
It started with one bird. In 1975 someone brought an injured broad-winged hawk to Dr Richard Brown, an ornithologist at UNC…
/outdoors/carolina-raptor-center/Walks and public art
The Trail of History walk, Little Sugar Creek Greenway
1.3 miles one way · paved · Midtown Charlotte
/walks/trail-of-history/An architecture walk through Uptown, built from the register
Twenty-four properties on the National Register of Historic Places sit inside a roughly twenty-five-block area of Uptown…
/history/architecture/uptown-walk/West Charlotte greenways: Irwin Creek, Stewart Creek and Wesley Heights
Charlotte's greenway attention goes almost entirely to Little Sugar Creek. The west-side network gets very little of it, which is…
/walks/west-charlotte-greenways/Public art in Charlotte
Mecklenburg County's public art register lists 242 installations, and nearly all of them are publicly owned: 132 works belong to…
/culture/public-art/Useful planning guides
Free things to do in Charlotte, NC
The strongest free options in Charlotte are not one-off events. They are parks, greenways, public art, libraries, self-guided…
/free/Charlotte on a rainy day
Charlotte gets proper rain, and it tends to arrive on the afternoon you had planned to be outside. Here is what is indoors, from…
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This is not a list of what's on. Things that are on change; this page is about the things that don't.
/practical/sunday/Day trips from Charlotte, NC
Charlotte sits within reach of state parks, historic sites, museums, lakes and mountain country. This guide focuses on…
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