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Tour 11 – Natty Greene’s Brewery & Old Mill of Guilford 
Natty Greene’s Brewery Co. prides itself on serving fresh, filtered, unpasteurized beers in a variety of flavorful styles. Tour the brewery and see how beer is processed from the barley stage to the bottling stage. Then for lunch, eat at Natty Greene’s pub & brewery, which originally opened in 2004 in this 1895 building in downtown Greensboro. After lunch sample the Old Town Brown Ale that won a silver medal in the English Brown Ales 2006 Great American Beer Festival as well as 4 other core beers and 7 seasonal beers.  You will stop at the Old Mill of Guilford which is a working water-powered mill with the sights and smells of another era and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  A gift shop with a variety of stone ground meals, honey, ham, North Carolina Pottery and crafts is also featured. Depart hotel at 12:00 noon, return at 5:30 p.m.

Tour 12 – Our Garden Tour
At the Greensboro Arboretum, you will see 12 different labeled plant collections, special garden displays and distinctive features within a 17-acre portion of Lindley Park.  The natural beauty of this area is inviting, and the planted collections provide year-round appeal.  This tour includes at stop at the Bog Garden.  The natural beauty of this swampy area has been developed into a striking exhibit featuring a half-mile, evaluated wooden walkway that provides easy access through the garden.  Visitors can see more than 8,000 trees, shrubs, ferns, bamboo, wildflowers, and the newest addition, Serenity Falls. Depart hotel at 8:30 a.m., return at 1:30 p.m.

Tour 13 – Childress Vineyards & Richard Childress Racing Museum         Join Richard Childress at his signature winery which has a comfortable, inviting Old World feel with a rustic, aged look reminiscent of a Tuscan villa. Iron chandeliers, heavy architectural beams and textured walls impart an overall elegant, antiqued look.  Visit the gift shop, tour the winery and taste world-class wines crafted by one of America’s most award-winning winemakers, Mark Friszolowski.   Inside the Richard Childress Racing Museum, there are 46 race cars and one NASCAR Truck and of them, 22 black No. 3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet Monte Carlos or Luminas driven by Dale Earnhardt.  It also includes 16 video screens in this facility, showcasing key victories in RCR history, plus numerous displays, memorabilia and photographs, including all six NASCAR Winston Cup championship owners' trophies and much more.  Depart hotel at 12:00 noon, return at 5:00 p.m. Childress Vineyards is 45 minutes from Greensboro.

Tour 14 – Duke University Chapel & The Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Once cited by author Aldous Huxley as “the most beautiful and successful experiment in neogothic form in the world”, Duke Chapel is one of the most popular features in North Carolina.  The Chapel, built in 1930, is English-Gothic and represents one of the last great collegiate Gothic projects in the United States.  It features the Flentrop Organ (5,200 pipes), 50-bel carillon, 210-foot tower, and stained-glass windows.  Take a guided tour of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens - 55 acres of landscaped and woodland gardens featuring more than 2,000 kinds of plants, five miles of walks and pathways with bridges, courts, lawns, waterfalls, ponds, and pavilions. Depart hotel at 12:00 noon, return at 5:30 p.m. Durham is 1 hour from Greensboro.  Expect to walk a lot!

Tour 15 – Start Your Engines!
See the Richard Petty Museum and its unique displays of the 7-time Winston Cup Series Champion’s racecars, trophies and awards, a mini-theatre, photos and more.  Also tour the North Carolina Aviation Museum and step back into your aviation past and see the planes that preserved our freedom.  Depart hotel at 11:00 a.m., return at 5:00 p.m. The Richard Petty Museum is 30 minutes from Greensboro.

Tour 16 – A Voyage through Time and History
Visit Old Salem but before you take your tour you will have lunch in the Old Salem Tavern, which features Moravian Chicken Pie, a double-crusted pie filled with chicken and served with gravy and sautéed vegetables. Then visit the faithfully restored German Moravian congregation town founded in 1766, where on every side the past lives again.  Here you can walk streets virtually unchanged in 200 years and see costumed interpreters re-enact how ordinary people lived, worked and worshipped.   Step into a Backcountry log house, an elegant Charleston parlor or an 18th century Virginia planter’s house.   Depart hotel at 12:00 noon, return at 5:00 p.m. Old Salem is 30 minutes from Greensboro.  Expect to walk a lot!

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Last updated April 1, 2008.

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Agricultural Extension Agent, North Carolina Cooperative Extension.