Sightseeing

A Walk Down Franklin Street

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610 East Rosemary St (Downtown)
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

phone (919) 942-7818.

Available Tue.-Fri., 10am-4pm; Sun., 1-4pm.

Self-Guided Walking Tour. Based on a popular descriptive brochure, this leisurely tour features historic homes in the district between the Horace Williams House and downtown Chapel Hill. Free. Parking.

Historic Hillsborough Tours

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150 East King St (Downtown),
Hillsborough, NC 27278

toll-free (877) 732-7748; phone (919) 732-7741.

Available Mon.-Fri., 9am-4pm; Sat., 10am-4pm; Sun., 1-4pm.

Guided and self-guided walking tours, guided step-on-bus tours and guided theme tours are available throughout the year in historic Hillsborough. Prices are adults, $6, Orange County adults, $5, seniors (65+), $5 and children (5-15), $2. The group walking and bus tours are available by appointment, with a minimum of 10 participants and at least two weeks notice. There is a regular guided tour on the second Saturday of the month, March to October, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. No reservations necessary. Finally, a self-guided walking tour booklet is available for $3 at the Orange County Visitors Center (in the Alexander Dickson House), 150 East King Street. Parking is available.

Historic UNC Campus Tour

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250 East Franklin St (Morehead Planetarium Building, West Lobby)
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3480

phone (919) 962-1630.

Available Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm.

Guided Historic Campus Tour. Standard tour available Mon.-Fri., 1:30pm. • Self-Guided Tour of the Historic Campus. Follow brick walkways into the University’s early years by taking a walking tour through the heart of the nation’s first state university and its historic sites. Founded in 1793, the core campus is about 730 acres. Maps are available, along with a recorded narration.

Trading Path Association

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122 South Churton St (#204)
Hillsborough, NC 27278

phone (919) 644-0600.

Guided Walking Tours. TPA is a non-profit archæological and education organization that works to preserve, promote and study the historic Trading Path of north central North Carolina. The path was a corridor of river crossings linked by roads and trails between the James River colonial settlements and the Catawba, Cherokee and other Native-American towns of the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia. It served Indian commerce prior to European colonization and was one of the principal avenues for European penetration into the heartland of southeastern America. For information on hikes, visit the Website and click on Events.