Links to Attractions and Events around Raleigh

Raleigh Visitor's Information Web site

Raleigh area resturants

Wolfpack Athletics (football, basketball, etc)

Carolina Hurricanes Hockey

RALEIGH FACTS:

• Population: Raleigh: 320,000; Wake County: 700,000;
  Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill MSA -- 1.2 million
• Raleigh was founded in 1792 as North Carolina's capital city. It was named for Sir Walter Raleigh, who attempted to establish the first English colony on the shores of the new world in the 1580s.
• The only state capital to have been planned and established by a state as the seat of state government.
• Largest city in a metropolitan area known as the Research Triangle.
• The city's founding fathers called Raleigh the "City of Oaks," and dedicated themselves to maintaining the area's wooded tracts and grassy parks.
• Home of the N.C. State Fair, North Carolina's largest event.