If you are staying at any of the hotels in Charlotte, you should surely visit the Park Road Shopping Center in Charlotte, NC. This Mall is the first open air quaintly crescent shaped shopping centre in Charlotte and is also amongst the largest of its kind between Washington City and Atlanta. It has even more than sixty stores, restaurants and services, mostly open air and multiple locations from sidewalks right across the main drive away from the store fronts. It has many stores with the charm of a personal touch like Bedford Falls Toys and Books, BlackHawk Hardware, Suarez Bakery, Park Road Books and much more which will entice you to keep returning again and again. The local people are attached to the Mall as well and generations after generations also retain their loyalty to this quaint open air mall.

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Park Road Shopping Center has its own home page online so you can always make a quick visit to it before you set forth virtually to this homely Mall.

http://www.parkroadshoppingcenter.com/

From the time it has opened in the mid-50s, Park Road Shopping Center has always been like a community icon for everyone who lived in its neighborhood like South End, Myers Park and also even Dilworth. Its charm has only intensified and even today it's a lovely mixture of shops, eateries and services. Very few shopping centers have the innate style this Mall has to boast of. You can visit online and read the individual reviews before you actually visit this open air Shopping center to see for yourself.

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Charlotte could be your next destination on your vacation. Get accommodation in hotels in charlotte, then you can stroll in the park road shopping center where you will be able to see some of the attraction sites.

This one could be very wonderful especially when out with the kids. There are plenty of fun places to take the kids.

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Wing Haven gardens and Bird Sanctuary

This was at one point in time a private residence after which it was designed as a bird's sanctuary. It is a four acre land with woods and has the ability to provide food and accommodation to quite a number of bird's species. Visitors can tour the bird's home and visit the garden shop.

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The charlotte Botanical Gardens

This is a flower garden carrying hundreds of flowers which include roses, rhododendron, cymbidium orchids and myrtles. The Susie gardens and Winter garden among others in the region are open to the public during the sunny day hours. The green house is made in a way to accommodate different species on plants including desert crops. The Green house has a special high light of a simulated rain forest climate.

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Others include:

The Energy Explorium at Lake Norman, charlotte and Metro Zoo among others.