Small town attractions <1 hour from Durham

[GoingBackEast]

Mebane is a great small town. Growing fast with the Outlet going up. But you can live north of all of this and watch the deer and birds....NC rocks.

[chiledog]

I would suggest Saxapahaw.

Saxapahaw Rivermill Home Page

Saxapahaw is an old mill town that they turned into an artsy town. It has a few wineries that have dinner theater. Plus it has the really weird adult puppet show Paperhand Puppet Intervention (http://www.paperhand.org/ourspace.htm - broken link) (adult as in too complex for kids, not porn).

It is a neat place.

[Francois]

An hour in pretty much any direction from Durham will get you to lots of small towns, too numerous to mention here. This state has very rural roots and until 20-30 years ago was mostly rural, so lots of those small towns remain. I would recommend heading up NW to Caswell county, where there is a bona fide Amish community and a neat Amish-run store.

Oxford, Roxboro, Mebane, Creedmoor, etc are all smallish towns in that circle; look at the other dots on a map within a couple of counties for some REALLY tiny ones.

[stu_tv]

Thanks all for the replies. Too many places to look into right now, but I'm going to save all these replies and hopefully visit a number of these areas.

My new job is going to be quite busy, but I hope to work enough hours during the week that my weekends will be a little more open to take day trips with my small family. Who knows...maybe I'll make it to all of these towns before the years up.

re: North Dakota...your getting colder.

stu_tv

[michgc]

Definitely Michigan. Everyone is moving away from there.