A quick escape into nature with its three miles of trail exploring riverside forests, bluffs reaching to the highest point in the area and mountain laurel and rhododendron thickets.
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The world's largest natural habitat zoo with exhibits focused on the animals of North America and Africa. Rental Options
The museum experience in Whiteville is modeled after proven interactive programs at the Museum’s main location in downtown Raleigh. Experience interactive exhibits including: Investigate lab: Use real scientific tools, including microscopes, to measure and observe the natural world. Naturalist Center: Get a hands-on, behind-the-scenes look at a research collection. Touch and learn about NC wildlife. Discovery Forest: Our youngest learners can explore interactive materials with an adult, including building blocks, a nature puppet theater, and science reading nook.
North Carolina's most-visited museum and the largest natural sciences museum in the Southeast, exploring our natural world through interactive exhibits, educational films, and hands-on learning areas. Hours and Admission
An aquarium exploring the waters of Outer Banks. Marvel at the largest collection of sharks in the state, touch stingrays and see sea turtle conservation work in progress. Rental Options
An aquarium offering visitors the opportunity to meet the thousands of aquatic animals that call all regions of North Carolina home. Rental Options
An aquarium that takes a broader look at the state's natural environment while focusing on the lower Cape Fear. Feel the smooth skin of a gliding stingray and marvel at free-flying butterflies and roar with the dinosaurs. Rental Options
A base camp for exploration of the New River, a National Wild and Scenic River that winds through some of the best North Carolina mountain scenery.
Our first state park, centered around a dramatic summit that is the highest point east of the Mississippi and the spruce-fir forest that surrounds it.
Rising abruptly to more than 1,600 feet above the surrounding landscape, Mount Jefferson State Park's namesake peak is a national natural landmark with a rich history.