Discover High Point

High Point brings together a range of themes for a stay: an industry event, insights into the city’s history, greenways and nature trails, as well as activities in parks. When planning your trip, it helps to first consider the reason for your visit. A trip centered around the High Point Market has a different focus than a stay featuring the Core Gallery, trails or park amenities.

Purpose and access: the High Point Market

The High Point Market is an event for the home furnishings and furniture industry held twice a year in High Point. It is open exclusively to industry professionals. If you want to plan your trip around a Market date, check the current event dates before making plans. For a visit with a different purpose, the following cultural and nature attractions offer their own starting points.

City history at the Core Gallery

The Core Gallery’s permanent exhibits offer insight into High Point’s past. Images and stories document people who lived, worshipped and worked in High Point. This puts tangible connections to everyday life at the center: home life, religious practice and work form part of the gallery’s thematic scope. If you are interested in local history, you can view these themes as different perspectives on life in High Point.

Compare greenways and nature trails

The High Point Greenway is 4.9 miles long, paved and runs from Armstrong Park to the Piedmont Environmental Center. The High Point section of the Bicentennial Greenway begins at the Piedmont Environmental Center, heads north and ends at Gallimore Dairy Road. This makes the Piedmont Environmental Center the endpoint of one section and the starting point of the other section described here. The details to compare differ: the High Point Greenway’s length and surface are specified, while the Bicentennial section’s direction and endpoint are given. This lets you match the trails’ characteristics to your planned stay.

High Point also has 6.6 miles of nature trails through hardwood and pine forests, as well as lakeside habitats. Here, distance and landscape are considered together; this differs from the paved surface of the High Point Greenway. All trails and greenways are open from sunrise to sunset. Plan your visit within this time frame.

The North Carolina Mapscape offers a different format: a walkable topographic map measuring 70 × 30 feet. Unlike the greenways and nature trails, the map itself is the main attraction here. The dimensions refer to the walkable map, while the trail lengths given above describe routes.

Park activities and scenery

High Point City Lake Park offers rides on a train and carousel, miniature golf and sightseeing trips on a tour boat. The activities vary in format: rides, miniature golf and a boat tour give you different ways to enjoy a visit to the park.

At Oak Hollow Lake, the scenery takes center stage: the lake provides a picturesque setting for several parks and facilities. This adds a distinct scenic aspect to a visit to High Point alongside a specific park offering, without equating the two.

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