Raleigh
Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S.
Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the second-most populous city in the state, tenth most populous city in the Southeast, the largest city in the Research Triangle area, and the 39th-most populous city in the U.S. Known as the "City of Oaks" for its oak-lined streets, Raleigh covers 148.54 square miles (384.7 km2) and had a population of 467,665 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Wake County and is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who founded the lost Roanoke Colony.
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Worth seeing in and around Raleigh
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lenovo Center
Lenovo Center is an indoor arena located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. The arena seats 18,547 for ice hockey and 19,367 for basketball, including 61 suites, 13 luxury boxes and 2,045 club level seats.
6.7 km · indoor arena, located in Raleigh, North Carolina · Wikipedia - 02Q1459878
The North Carolina Museum of Art is an art museum with a primary campus in Raleigh and a satellite campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding.
7.2 km · state art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina · Wikipedia - 03WakeMed Soccer Park
WakeMed Soccer Park is a soccer complex in Cary, North Carolina, United States. It consists of a purpose-built, soccer-specific main stadium named First Horizon Stadium, two lighted practice football pitches, and four additional fields.
7.6 km · soccer stadium in Cary, North Carolina, USA · Wikipedia - 04Carter–Finley Stadium
Wayne Day Family Field at Carter–Finley Stadium is a college football stadium located in Raleigh, North Carolina. It has been home to the NC State Wolfpack football team of the Atlantic Coast Conference since 1966 and has a current seating capacity of 56,919 seats.
7.1 km · stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA · Wikipedia - 05William B. Umstead State Park
William B. Umstead State Park is a North Carolina state park in Wake County, North Carolina, in the United States. It covers 5,442 acres nestled between the expanding cities of Raleigh, Cary, and Durham, North Carolina.
1.7 km · state park in North Carolina · Wikipedia - 06Dorton Arena
J. S. Dorton Arena is a 7,610-seat multi-purpose arena located in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the grounds of the North Carolina State Fair. It opened in 1952 as State Fair Arena.
8.2 km · arena in Raleigh, North Carolina · Wikipedia - 07Church Street Park
Church Street Park is a cricket ground in Morrisville, North Carolina, United States. In September 2018, it hosted the matches in the Northern sub-region group of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier tournament.
7.4 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia - 08Page-Walker Hotel
The Page-Walker Hotel, also known as the Page-Walker Arts & History Center, is a historic house museum and former hotel located in Cary, North Carolina. The founder of the town of Cary, Allison Francis Page, built the Second Empire style hotel about 1868, and J. R. Walker bought it later.
7.5 km · historic house in North Carolina, United States · Wikipedia - 09Matsumoto House
Matsumoto House is a historic home located at Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built in 1952–1954, and is a one-story, rectangular, post and beam-framed house cantilevered over a concrete block base, Miesian inspired dwelling.
8.9 km · historic house in North Carolina, United States · Wikipedia - 10Crabtree
Crabtree is a shopping mall in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. The mall spans 1,343,109 square feet of selling space, making it the largest mall in the Research Triangle area.
7.6 km · Regional shopping mall in Raleigh, North Carolina · Wikipedia
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Getting to Raleigh
- Airports
- Raleigh-Durham (RDU), 4 km · Piedmont Triad (GSO), 109 km · Charlotte Douglas (CLT), 210 km
- Stations
- Raleigh–Durham International Airport, 3.5 km · North Carolina State Fair station, 8.4 km
- Greensboro → Raleigh109 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · $10–14
- Charlotte → Raleigh209 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · $21–29
- Richmond → Raleigh224 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · $20–28
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Raleigh
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Raleigh. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Raleigh
Raleigh is 12 km from West Raleigh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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