Area Resources

Visitors Centers

Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Center
501 West Franklin St (Downtown); Chapel Hill; toll-free (888) 968-2060; phone (919) 968-2060. Open Mon.-Fri., 8:30am-5pm; Sat., 10am-2pm.

Orange County Visitors Center
Alliance for Historic Hillsborough
150 East King St (Downtown, in the Alexander Dickson House); Hillsborough; toll-free (877) 732-7748; phone (919) 732-7741. Open Mon.-Sat., 10am-4pm; Sun., Noon-4pm.

UNC Visitors’ Center
250 East Franklin St (West Lobby, in the Morehead Foundation building), UNC campus; Chapel Hill; phone (919) 962-1630. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm; closed major holidays.

Travel & Tourism in North Carolina

North Carolina Division of Tourism, Sports and Film Development
301 North Wilmington St, Raleigh, NC 27699-4301; toll-free (800) 847-4862 (VISITNC); phone (919) 733-4171. Click on the website or call for information about traveling in our beautiful state. The Division also publishes an annual North Carolina Travel Guide.

Business Development & Relocation

Orange County Economic Development Commission
131 West Margaret Lane, Suite 300 (Downtown), Hillsborough; phone (919) 245-2325. Open Mon.-Fri., 8am-5pm; closed major holidays. Strives to make Orange County a smart, innovative place in which to live and work. It encourages public-private investments to provide jobs for county residents and to increase the non-residential tax base. Through these investments, it enhances the county’s financial well-being, the ability of local governments to provide high-quality services and the quality of life for county residents.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce
104 South Estes Dr, Chapel Hill; phone (919) 967-7075. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm; closed major holidays. Provides brochures and personal assistance to newcomers seeking information about the Chapel Hill and Carrboro areas, especially for family relocation and business start-up and relocation. Parking.

Hillsborough/Orange County Chamber of Commerce
102 North Churton St (Downtown), Hillsborough; phone (919) 732-8156. Open Mon.-Fri., 8:30am-5:30pm; closed major holidays. Represents the best sources for goods and services in the Hillsborough area, and is organized to advance the growth and prosperity of its business community, and to provide information to visitors, locals and those planning to relocate to the area.

Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership
308 West Rosemary St, #202 (Downtown), Chapel Hill; phone (919) 967-9440. Open Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm. This organization was created to bring the resources of the Town, the University, and downtown community together to maintain, enhance and promote downtown as the social, cultural and spiritual center of Chapel Hill through economic development.

Orange County Newspapers & Media

The Carrboro Citizen
Carrboro Free Press
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Chapel Hill News
The Daily Tar Heel
The News of Orange County
Southern Neighbor
Community Sports News 123 Barclay Rd; Chapel Hill, phone (919) 968-8741
Chapel Hill magazine
WCHL Radio (AM 1360)
WCOM Radio (FM 103.5)
WUNC Radio (FM 91.5)
The Peoples Channel (Cable Channel 8)

Other Triangle Media

Fifteen501 magazine
The Independent Weekly
WRAL-TV, Channel 5
WTVD-TV, Channel 11
WNCN-TV, Channel 17
WLFL-TV, Channel 22

Senior Citizens

Orange County Department on Aging
Mailing Address – PO Box 8181 Hillsborough, NC; phone (919) 245-2020. Physical location – Central Orange Senior Center, 103 Meadowland Drive, Hillsborough, NC 27278. The department serves as the central resource for planning, advocacy and coordination of services for older adults in Orange County. It also coordinates a wide range of programs and activities at two senior centers around the county.:

  • Central Orange Senior Center; 103 Meadowland Dr (off US Highway 70 next to the Triangle Sportsplex); Hillsborough; phone (919) 245-2015. Open Mon and Thur, 8am-9pm; Tue-Wed and Fri., 8am-5pm and closed weekends.
  • Seymour Center, 2551 Homestead Rd; Chapel Hill; phone (919) 968-2070. Open Mon, Wed and Fri, 8am-5pm; Tue and Thur, 8am – 9 pm; and Sat, 9am – 2pm. (Named for Robert and Pearl Seymour.)

UNC Hospitals

UNC Hospitals
101 Manning Dr; Chapel Hill, NC 27514; phone (919) 966-4131 (operator). The UNC Health Care System is a not-for-profit integrated health care system, owned by the State of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. It exists to further the teaching mission of the University of North Carolina and to provide state-of-the-art patient care. Because of its close association with the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, a nationally eminent research institution, UNC Health Care is a powerful pathway for moving the results of biomedical research from medical school laboratories to patient care settings.


Did You Know?

Information is the most important resource you'll need to get to and navigate the Chapel Hill/Orange County area, and the organizations below can provide it to you.