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Appalachian Craft Center
North Carolina Mountains, North Carolina
Downtown Asheville has a lot of great stores where you can buy traditional crafts made by local artists. One of the best is Appalachian Craft Center. You'll find quilts, homemade...
Boutique
Carowinds
Charlotte, North Carolina
One ticket admits lucky kids to both the theme park and the water park that caters to both the fearless and mellow....
Theme Park
Water Park
Amusement Park
Charlotte at Play
Charlotte, North Carolina
Don't let the strip mall location fool you—this small children's museum delights kids by emphasizing imagination over high-tech exhibits....
Children's Museum
Special Collection
Charlotte Museum of History
Charlotte, North Carolina
This museum gives a great sense of Charlotte's past, but kids are drawn more to the museum's "backyard," where kids love feeling the vibrations of the largest bell in America with their bare hands....
History Museum
Charlotte Nature Museum
Charlotte, North Carolina
How long can your preschooler stand still? When she wants a butterfly to land on her shoulder, longer than you think. This is a small, lovely museum that is the right scale for young children....
Science & Nature Museum
ClimbMax
North Carolina Mountains, North Carolina
ClimbMax boasts challenging climbing walls on the inside and outside of its downtown building. Outside, intrepid teens climb a wall that tops off on the roof. Inside are a variety...
Climbing
Concord Mills
Charlotte, North Carolina
If your child is itching to spend that allowance, there's no better place to do it in North Carolina than Concord Mills, home of more than 200 stores and a go-cart racetrack....
Racetrack
Shopping Mall
Discovery Place
Charlotte, North Carolina
This hands-on science museum engages kids from the moment they walk in the door in physics, dinosuars, weather forecasting, and architectural engineering....
Science & Nature Museum
Emerald Village
North Carolina Mountains, North Carolina
The North Carolina Mountains are famous for gems, and Emerald Village is a fun place for kids to get their hands on some. The mine tour takes families through an...
History Museum
Special Collection
Forest Discovery Center
North Carolina Mountains, North Carolina
This forest conservation educational center is a small treasure. Kids go underground to see what lives under the forest floor, scramble around finding animals for a scavenger hunt, and play...
Science & Nature Museum
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