DISCOVER MORE ABOUT CABARRUS COUNTY

Cabarrus’ long connection to motorsports has brought worldwide attention to this fast-growing county. Home of the Charlotte Motor Speedway, the county bills itself as “Where Racing Lives” with the speedway, the zMAX Dragway, and the self-guided tour of racing legend Dale Earnhardt Jr.

There are other ways to race, also. Get outdoors and try the Carolina Thread Trail and Franke Liske Park for plenty of green space to run, hike, walk, or paddle. Pan for gold at Reed Gold Mine, the location of the nation’s first gold discovery in 1799. If it’s golf you’re after, you have choices: the Rocky River Golf Club at Concord, the Cabarrus Country Club, and Highland Creek, as a starter.

Concord Mills, a 1.4 million-square-foot shopping mall with more than 200 stores and service, is the largest outlet and value shopping destination in the state.

Great Wolf Lodge at Speedway Boulevard features a huge water fort tree house, a 1,000-gallon tipping bucket and more. You’ll find more than 5,000 sea creatures at SEA LIFE Charlotte-Concord.

There’s small-town life, too, in Mt. Pleasant, Harrisburg, and Midland, as well as the re-invented world of Kannapolis, a town of two counties – Cabarrus and Rowan. You’ll find upscale living, open air dining, walking, running, a putt-putt lawn, classes for exercise, fountains, public art, the area’s Minor League baseball team, and Old Armor Beer Co. All this, and adjacent is the North Carolina Research Campus, a 350-acre scientific community that works collaboratively with eight universities, entrepreneurs, and the David H. Murdock Research Institute to empower human health through nutrition, healthier foods, and precision nutrition.

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