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Jog on the Greenway, stroll through a park, or explore one of the best zoos in the country. Click on the names below to go to their Web site.

Greensboro Trails & Greenway
The Trails Division of Greensboro's Parks & Recreation Department manages over 65 miles of trails throughout the city. This system of trails is comprised of natural trails that surround our reservoirs, paved greenways that traverse linear parks and trails that are found in our parks and gardens. A 3.5 mile paved greenway passes near the O. Henry.

Bicentennial Garden & David Caldwell Historic Park
A long-time Greensboro favorite, the garden features flowering and deciduous trees, shrubs and annual beds containing mass and design plantings that bring color to the garden throughout the year. Only a mile from the O. Henry.

Bog Garden
The natural beauty of this swampy area has been developed into a striking exhibit featuring a half-mile, elevated wooden walkway that provides easy access through the garden. Visitors can see more than 8,000 trees, shrubs, ferns, bamboo and wildflowers. Only a mile from the O. Henry.

Greensboro Arboretum
See nine 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 appeal throughout the year.

Country Park
The park offers two stocked fishing lakes, pedal boats, three playgrounds, picnic shelters, softball field and trails for jogging, hiking and bicycling.

Wet 'N Wild Emerald Pointe Water Park
The largest water park in the Carolinas and one of the top 12 in the United States offers more than 35 rides and attractions. The park provides incredible, exciting summer fun! Thunder Bay, one of only four tsunami (giant wave) pools in the country, makes massive, perfect waves. Enclosed slides, drop slides, tube rides and cable glides provide thrills for all ages and sizes. Two great children's areas and a drifting lazee river complete the fun for everyone.

North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro
Located 35 miles south of the O. Henry Hotel is the nation's largest and finest walk-through natural-habitat zoo features more than 1,100 animals and 60,000 plants in its African and North American sections. The Streamside exhibit recreates North Carolina's stream wildlife from the mountains through the Piedmont region and coastal plain.