The City of Charlotte, North Carolina’s impeccable Queen City, is a wonderful place to visit when you get a chance to every year. It is the Largest City metro area in the State of North Carolina. It has a Banking center with Regional bank businesses headquartered there, such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and TD Bank. It has some of the best Foodie resturants in all the United States and American South.
There are Five tourism sites that I have visited in the City of Charlotte every year when I make the Day trip up from Greenville SC where I live. Those Five impeccable Tourism sites include the Spectrum Center, SouthPark Mall, Paramount Carowinds Theme park, Discovery Place, and Uptown Charlotte. Charlotte truly is a wonderful place. It is absolutely I think the most Greatest and most interesting global major metropolitan area in all America! The People of Clinton and Laurens County SC; you would want to make the small trip to the City of Charlotte over the weekend real soon.
I have been in Charlotte for music concerts and Sports events in the past. Over the years at the Charlotte Coliseum in Downtown Charlotte I once saw the Charlotte Hornets NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks when I was younger back in 1992 with friends from church. And I have even saw music concerts at the Ovens Auditorium and Spectrum Center when it was built back in 2005. I got to see stars perform at the City of Charlotte with the likes of Ludicris, DMX, Busta Rhymes, Nelly, Missy Elliot, Prince, Janet Jackson, LL cool J, Beyonce, Jill Scott, Adam Levine, Justin Timberlake, and Eminem back in my 20s.
The SouthPark Mall, located in 4400 Sharon Road in Charlotte, is a wonderful shopping mecca in the Queen City. It is known as the Largest Mall in North Carolina, bigger than Concord Mills Mall in Concord, NC which is the second largest. It is a Simon Mall that is home to 175 speciality shops, such as Ann Taylor, Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, Ole Navy, and the Gap. The SouthPark Mall truly is a wonderful shopping mecca in all the Queen City.
The Paramount Carowinds theme park, located at 300 Carowinds Blvd in Charlotte; is truly an entertainment extravaganza! It is a 407 acre amusement park adjacent to Interstate 77 in the Charlotte area. The park straggles the North Carolina-South Carolina State line, and that is the most interesting fact about Carowinds! I used to travel to this park with many of my family and friends thru the years growing up, and it has always been a fun attraction in the Regional area. The park rides and roller coasters include the Carolina Cyclone, Afterburn, Carolina Goldrusher, Charlie Brown’s wind up, and Copperhead Strike. The adjacent campgrounds near the Carowinds area is also a fun experience.I camped for a night at the Carowinds Camp Wilderness with my Mother and friends during my college years some time ago. Paramount’s Carowinds is truly a Wonderful Carolina attraction for all ages.
The Discovery Place Science museum located at 301 North Tyron Street in Charlotte, is a Great place for exploring science together as a family. I remembered going on extended field trips to the Discovery Place Center in my Middle school days during the 1990s, and this museum science exhibits excited me as a young person. Make sure you bring your children to the Discovery Place Center real soon.
The Downtown Charlotte area “Uptown Charlotte” is the central business district of the Queen City. This area is split into Four wards by the intersection of Trade and Tyron Streets. North Graham Street and South Graham Street is my most favorite place in all of the Queen City. You could find in this area diverse attractions such as NASCAR Hall of Fame, Bank of America Stadium the Home of the Carolina Panthers, Mecklenburg County Main Public Library, and the Truist Center skyscraper. In this area back in the year 1999 I even could remembered that I came to Charlotte to get my first drink with my Friend at a Uptown Charlotte bar that was near the downtown Old Settler’s cemetary. The Uptown Charlotte area is a place to die for as a Great tourist attraction.
Please visit the City of Charlotte soon, North Carolina’s esteemed Queen City. There are truly wonderful things to do and places to see. The restaurant services here are exceptional; and Charlotte truly has some of the best resturants in all of the American South and the North Carolina region. The City of Charlotte, North Carolina’s Queen City, truly is Top of the line.
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Steven Hawkins is a Freelance writer from Greenville SC. Since 2014 Hawkins has written Editorials and op-eds for some of the Largest Newspapers in South Carolina, North Carolina, and around the country. He even had his work featured on the ‘’Your Carolina” show on the local WSPA Channel 7 channel in Spartanburg SC by Anchor Jack Roper with a 44th Birthday Shout out. And in 2019 Hawkins published a Book collection of his newspaper editorials with AuthorHouse entitled “Letters from South Carolina.”
