- Wilkesboro/North Wilkesboro
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Each year, Wilkes County hosts four major events - the MerleFest in the Spring, the Heritage Festival in the Summer, and the Apple Festival and Wilkes Agricultural Fair in the Fall.
- Wilkes Community College Gardens features the unique non-visual Eddy Merle Watson Memorial Garden for the senses. Designed to appeal to the senses of smell and touch, the gardens interpret the variety of flowers and Braille labels.
- State Parks in the area include Stone Mountain State Park, Basin Creek Trail, Moravian Falls Family Campground and Water Park, W. Kerr Scott Dam and Reservoir, and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- Boone/Blowing Rock
 Ride the train, brave the bridge, unravel mysteries, pan for fortunes, tap your toes, see inside a mountain and much, much more. There's plenty to do for kids, couples, families and seniors!
- Winston-Salem
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What attracts you? Here are some of our favorite things:
Historic Bethabara Park
Old Salem
SciWorks
Tanglewood Park
Körner's Folly
Germanton Art Gallery & Winery
Westbend Vineyards
Whitaker Park Manufacturing Center
- Charlotte
- For exuberant fun, visit Discovery Place, one of the nation's top hands-on science museums with Planetarium and Omnimax Theatre. At the Charlotte Historic Trolley Museum, see photos and exhibits, then take a trolley ride. Summer months bring out gorgeous colors at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, 110 acres with themed gardens, fountains and trails, and at Ribbon Walk, a 137-acre botanical forest and environmental education center.
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