Less than 5 miles from downtown Raleigh, you can find Wake County’s largest grove of pecan trees on this 19th century historic farmstead. Continue reading “Historic Oak View County Park”
Greystone Recreation Center
Raleigh’s newest park is the city’s first with an indoor playground. Continue reading “Greystone Recreation Center”
Walnut Creek Wetland Center
A modern, sustainably-built education center lives at the heart of this 59-acre wetland area in downtown Raleigh. Continue reading “Walnut Creek Wetland Center”
Hiking at Falls Lake
Did you know that there is a 20+ mile long hiking trail in North Raleigh? Great for fun hikes with families or longer multi-day trips, the South Shore trail at Falls Lake is great destination for hikers of all skill-levels. Continue reading “Hiking at Falls Lake”
Honeycutt Park
Honeycutt Park is a fairly new park in North Raleigh that offers some nice play options and holds the key to greenway connections coming soon. Continue reading “Honeycutt Park”
Camping at Falls Lake
This weekend, I took my almost-eight-year-old son for his first camping trip. Some long-time family friends of ours have kids that are close in age to our children. We gathered the two families for a dinner including hot dogs roasted over a roaring fire, followed up with the always-popular s’mores. A bit before the 8pm park-closing, the wives took the younger children home, leaving my friend and I and our two sons to camp for the night. Continue reading “Camping at Falls Lake”
Blue Jay Point County Park
Blue Jay Point is one of my family’s favorite parks. Playground, hiking trails, sports fields, environmental education – Blue Jay Point has it all. Continue reading “Blue Jay Point County Park”
Cedar Hills Rotary Park
You may only know the Cedar Hills Rotary Park by the sign posted on Spring Forest Road near the intersection with Falls of the Neuse. If you’ve never explored this park, you’ve missed out on a nice neighborhood park with some unique features. Continue reading “Cedar Hills Rotary Park”
A Playground, Built in One Day
On Saturday, August 29th, at eight in the morning, more 200 volunteers gathered in an empty field at the Green Road park in Raleigh. By the end of the day, the neighborhood had a new playground to swing, slide and climb on. Continue reading “A Playground, Built in One Day”
E. Carroll Joyner Park (Wake Forest)
I typically feature only Raleigh parks, but branched out this weekend to check out Wake Forest’s E. Carroll Joyner park. Joyner Park is a 117 acre park about a mile east of US 1. Continue reading “E. Carroll Joyner Park (Wake Forest)”