About

The Best Place to Raise Kids in North Carolina


Nearby Shopping:
 

Holly Springs Towne Center is new to the area and has stores such as Target, Marshalls, Petco and Dick’s Sporting Goods.

Village Walk Shopping Center in Holly Springs has Harris Teeter grocery store, an ABC store, CVS Pharmacy, a bank, Curves fitness center, and several restaurants.

There are several large malls in Cary, Raleigh and Durham; all within reasonable driving distance.

 

Area Recreation: 

Bass Lake Park in Holly Springs features a 100-acre lake stocked for fishing, a conference center, nature center, greenway hiking trails, and picnic shelter rentals.

Harris Lake County Park is a 680-acre park in New Hill, NC and is convenient to Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Holly Springs and Fuquay-Varina. The park features hiking, picnic shelters, fishing, sailing, power boating/PWC boating, canoeing, mountain bike trails, educational gardens, and more. 

Jordan Lake State Recreation Area sailing, power boating/PWC boating, camping, fishing, hiking, swimming, picnicking, and Bald Eagle watching.  

 

Culture:  

Holly Springs Cultural Center located in the heart of Holly Springs offers  theater, dance, music, classes and more. It is also home to a  Wake County branch library.

The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts is located in downtown Raleigh and offers Broadway plays, ballet, and performances by the NC Symphony Orchestra.

PNC Arena is located in Raleigh, NC and is home to the 2006 Stanley Cup Champions Carolina Hurricanes and NC State University Men’s Basketball. PNC Arena in Raleigh hosts many major concert tours, performances by Cirque du Soleil, the circus and lots more. 


Durham Performing Arts Center is located in Durham, NC just off of the Durham Expressway and not far from Interstate 40.

 

Area Sports:

Town of Holly Springs - All Sports Stadium: Town leaders have endorsed plans for an 1,800-seat stadium on North Main Street

College Athletics are big in the area, with UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University in Durham, and NC State University in Raleigh all nearby.

The Durham Bulls baseball team plays at the Durham Athletic Park, the NHL Carolina Hurricanes play at PNC Areana in Raleigh and Wake Med Soccer Park in Cary hosts the Carolina RailHawks. 

 

Area Healthcare:

The area has some of the best healthcare facilities in the world with Duke University Hospital and UNC Healthcare in Chapel Hill,  as well as numerous other health care facilities in Wake County, North Carolina, including Wake Med Health and Hospitals and Rex Healthcare based in Raleigh which hospitals in Cary and Apex and has a new location in Holly Springs.