Home to a booming healthcare industry, Durham is known as the city of medicine. Fortunately for Durham hotel guests, the city offers art, history and the great outdoors, in addition to large doses of science and technology.
Embrace your inner art critic at the Nasher Museum of Art and the North Carolina Central University Art Museum during your stay at our accommodations in Durham, or satisfy your natural curiosity at the Museum of Life and Science. Those with paranormal interests can explore the extraordinary at the Rhine ESP/Parapsychology Museum.
Shop and dine in repurposed 1904 Neo-Romanesque brick tobacco warehouses, at Brightleaf Square, or get lost in North Carolina history at the Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum. You can stroll through historic Parrish Street, where African-American businesses prospered in the 1900s. Revisit Bull Durham locales at Historic Durham Athletic Park, former home of the Durham Bulls baseball team.
Take a scenic walk downtown or jog around miles of trails in Durham’s famous Research Triangle Park, only a short distance from your Durham accommodations. Then wander over 7,000 acres of forest at Duke Forest, where you can ride horseback or simply relax with a picnic lunch. For aquatic fun, visit Eno River State Park.
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