Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
In Durham, activity revolves around the renovated brick tobacco warehouses of the
handsome downtown: check out Brightleaf Sq and the American Tobacco Campus for
shopping and outdoor dining.
Sights
Duke Lemur Center
ZOO
( 919-489-3364;
www.lemur.duke.edu
;
3705 Erwin Rd, Durham; adult/child $10/7; )
Perhaps
the coolest, least-known sight in Durham, the Lemur Center has the largest collection of
endangered prosimian primates outside their native Madagascar. Only a robot could fail
to melt at the sight of these big-eyed fuzzy-wuzzies. Call well in advance for tours, held
Monday to Saturday by appointment only.
Duke University
UNIVERSITY, GALLERY
(
www.duke.edu
; Campus Dr, Durham)
Endowed by the Duke family's cigarette fortune, the
university has a Georgian-style East Campus and a neo-Gothic West Campus notable for
its towering 1930s chapel. The
Nasher Museum of Art
(2001 Campus Dr; admission $5;
10am-5pm Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat, to 9pm Thu, noon-5pm Sun)
is also worth a gander, as is the
heavenly 55-acre
Sarah P Duke Gardens
(420 Anderson St;
8am to dusk)
.
Metered parking at both sites is $2 per hour.
University of North Carolina
UNIVERSITY
(
www.unc.edu
;
Chapel Hill)
America's oldest public university has a classic quad lined with
flowering pear trees and gracious antebellum buildings. Don't miss the Old Well, said to
give good luck to students who drink from it. Pick up a map of the site at the
visitor cen-
ter
(
919-962-1630; 250 E Franklin St;
9am-5pm Mon-Fri)
inside the Morehead Planetari-
um and Science Center.
Durham Bulls Athletic Park
SPECTATOR SPORT
(
www.dbulls.com
; 409 Blackwell St, Durham; tickets $7-9; )
Have a quintessentially Americ-
an afternoon of beer and baseball watching the minor-league Durham Bulls (of 1988
Kevin Costner film
Bull Durham
fame), who play from April to September.
Sleeping
There are plenty of cheap chain motels off I-85 in north Durham.
