Top rated Tourist attractions in Raleigh, United States to elevate your visit (Updated April, 2024)

Top rated Tourist attractions in Raleigh

Experience the best that Raleigh has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 72 places from Tourist attraction category.

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Sassafras All Children's Playground

Playground

👍👍 Hands down one of the Top Three playgrounds in the Greater Raleigh Are! It is big, it is spread out, and it has a hundred options of play places for your kids. There’s stuff for little ones to do abs just as much stuff for bigger kids to do. There’s sand, there’s cable slides, there’s swings, slides...

4.90 (898 reviews) (~7.68 km from centre)

Aristotle Spirits

Distillery

👍👍 Sarah was really fun and informative, she made us really good drinks and we were on her biggest tour which was a lot of fun. She was really informative! I highly recommend the tour and cocktails. We had the Carolina mule, aged old fashioned, local blossom, and downtown sour. Enjoyed the hospitality!...

4.90 (79 reviews) (~8.83 km from centre)

Prairie Ridge Ecostation

Park

Sustainably built field station offering educational science events in rustic quarters.

4.90 (66 reviews) (~7.67 km from centre)

North Carolina Museum of Art

Art museum

Permanent collection spanning 5,000 years, traveling exhibits, outdoor monument park & amphitheater.

4.80 (9.7K reviews) (~6.6 km from centre)

Marbles Kids Museum

Children's museum

Children's museum featuring a wide variety of interactive displays for toddlers & school-age kids.

4.80 (6.3K reviews) (~0.33 km from centre)

JC Raulston Arboretum

Arboretum

Gardens, plant collections & educational programs in a free, 10-acre retreat at NC State University.

4.80 (2.3K reviews) (~5.71 km from centre)

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Museum

Exhibits on NC's geology, flora & fauna, plus fossil collections, 3D films & live-animal programs.

4.80 (2.2K reviews) (~0.2 km from centre)

Laurel Hills Park

Park

Multi-use preserve including community center, playground, sports fields, pond & walking trails.

4.80 (1.4K reviews) (~7.73 km from centre)

WRAL Azalea Garden

Garden

Quiet azalea garden on TV-studio site, with winding paths, shaded benches & manicured lawns.

4.80 (1K reviews) (~3.14 km from centre)

Historic Oak View County Park

Park

Charming 19th-century farmstead & rural history museum with folksy exhibits of country life.

4.80 (644 reviews) (~6.31 km from centre)

Memorial Belltower

Monument

👍👍 Cool experience. Great monument. Memorial to the Raleigh area military vets who died in World War One.

4.80 (437 reviews) (~2.29 km from centre)

All Saints Chapel

Chapel

👍👍 All Saints Chapel is a charming and cozy church venue with a small parking lot and plenty of street parking. An intimate setting with an old world architecture feel, perfect for the Queen Instrumental Candlelight Concert we attended on 12/9/2022. Perfect minimal Christmas decor on the exterior doe...

4.80 (182 reviews) (~0.61 km from centre)

Gregg Museum of Art & Design

Art museum

👍👍 See below for a recap of current exhibits. It's free! See photos, too. The Gregg Museum of Art & Design reopened in its current home at 1903 Hillsborough Street on August 26, 2017. The museum includes the renovated original NC State University Chancellor’s residence and a recent addition. The g...

4.80 (116 reviews) (~2.11 km from centre)

Pope House Museum

Museum

Former home of a prominent African-American resident featuring original furnishings & guided tours.

4.80 (68 reviews) (~0.75 km from centre)

Raleigh Fire Museum

Local history museum

👍👍 Small museum open the 2nd Saturday of Every month. We had a great time, fire people were out helping kids work a fire hose, answering questions about the two fire trucks we could play in and a small museum with lots of artifacts, pictures and history of the Raleigh fire department. The inside museum...

4.80 (35 reviews) (~1.93 km from centre)

Pullen Park

Park

5th-oldest amusement park in the U.S., with a carousel, mini-train, paddle boats, playground & more.

4.70 (8.1K reviews) (~2.15 km from centre)

Lake Johnson Park

Park

Recreation area with 5.4 miles of trails around a lake, plus boat rentals, picnic areas & fishing.

4.70 (4.3K reviews) (~7.07 km from centre)

Shelley Lake Park

Park

2 miles of wooded trails with work-out stations along a scenic lake, plus open fields & a playground

4.70 (1.5K reviews) (~9.06 km from centre)

Dorothea Dix Park

Park

Sizable city park & events site featuring an off-leash dog area & a seasonal sunflower field.

4.70 (1.2K reviews) (~1.72 km from centre)

Sunflower Field

Garden

👍👍 Beautiful, even though we missed peak season, beautiful. There were plenty of blooming sunflowers. We saw bees doing their jobs and some colorful birds. My only issue were the people who pulled seeds to leave their initial or faces. Why? That's NOT the park's issue, just people who feel the need t...

4.70 (1.1K reviews) (~2.15 km from centre)

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