It's summer time in Raleigh, North Carolina. On today's video,
I'm gonna give you 10 great things you can do to while away the summer days.
Hello everyone, this is Chris Morton real estate broker with EXP Realty and one of
the best things you can do with your summer days is visit the sunflowers
at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh. So if you're watching this video mid July, 2022,
definitely run, don't walk to Dorothea Dix Park to catch the sunflowers there in full bloom right
now. So this is a really big deal for our area and definitely something you need to go check out.
Great photos can be taken in these sunflowers. They're in full bloom, as they say, it's very
Instagram-able. It's a pretty amazing area. And as I say, it's a really big deal. People watch the
forecast each year around this time to figure out when the sunflowers are gonna be in their
best blooming stage and they go out and they make a big day of it. They have food trucks out here
on select days when it's the busiest and just a really, really cool event. Definitely something
we recommend you check out. And if you're watching this video in the future, definitely check out the
sunflower website. Check out the forecast because these sunflowers
only bloom a few weeks out of the year and you really need to time it just right to catch them.
Next up, we have Drive Shack. So Drive Shack is located in west Raleigh, almost in Cary. It is
a partially indoor driving range, where everyone from inexperienced golfers, all the way to expert
golfers can go and have a really, really great time. There's bars, restaurants, inside this
complex and rooftop lounge, the whole nine yards. So you can have a really great afternoon or entire
day hitting golf balls or whatever golfers do, as you can tell, I am not an expert golfer. Sorry.
Next up we have the state Farmer's Market and yes, just about every one of these videos we
do about the different seasons. We talked about the farmer's market reason being it's never the
same thing twice, definitely in the summer. You're gonna catch all the summer vegetables,
definitely a recommended thing for you to do great opportunity to go spend a few hours,
especially on the weekends when it's unfortunately crowded, but it's kind of nice that you get to be
around a bunch of people and you can get anything from, as I said, vegetables, to fruit, to honey,
to eggs, really good eggs. Some of the vendors have some amazing eggs. We don't go to the grocery
store for eggs anymore. So definitely a great, great place to go. Definitely a great place to
go in the summer. You've got the two restaurants you can eat at. The country restaurant that has
great breakfast, lunch and dinner is also the fried seafood place. And did I mention
the seafood is fried, definitely worth your time. Definitely check out the state farmer's market.
Next thing you can do during the summer months, dine outdoors. So summer is a great time
to go to a restaurant that has outdoor dining and Raleigh and the triangle is definitely a
great place to go do some outdoor dining and some of our favorite restaurants allow
you to eat outdoors. For example, there's Rosewater in Raleigh's North Hills district.
Great, great restaurant. There's Taverna Agora and Mulino in downtown Raleigh that have some
great outdoor seating. There's Prime Barbecue in Knightdale. One of our favorite barbecue places,
definitely a great place for some outdoor seating. And of course, no list would be
complete without adding Sam Jones Barbecue in downtown Raleigh to the list, beyond the fact
that they have really good barbecue year round, they have some really cool outdoor seating.
And speaking of Sam Jones, if you haven't already entered our contest where we are celebrating,
hitting 10,000 subscribers, please definitely do so. We're gonna be giving away a $250
giftcard to the Angus Barn, which is a really, really, great steakhouse,
local steakhouse here in our area and a $50 giftcard to Sam Jones Barbecue. So we'll link
all the details in the description below. In addition, there are several rooftop bars in our
area. The two that come to my mind immediately are Level Seven in Raleigh's North Hills district and
the Willard in downtown Raleigh on Glenwood South. We're also gonna drop a link to a
really good article about outdoor dining in the description below. So go check that out as well.
Next up, you can go hang out at Cary’s Fenton. So Fenton is a massive new development that's coming
online. Again, if you're watching this mid-July 2022 restaurants and shops are slowly opening
up. This is an amazing complex, very great addition to Cary. And the entire triangle,
this complex has 92 acres with over a million square feet of office space and 575,000 square
feet of commercial shopping and restaurant space. Most of them are on the first floor
with the office space on the second floor of these buildings. They're really, really well
designed. It looks like these buildings have been here forever and they've been rehabbed,
which makes it really cool. Gives it great character. Plenty of parking,
there's eight parking decks are gonna be in this complex when all is said and done. And as I said,
lots of restaurants are coming online. Some really, really, cool local chefs and restaurants
are coming to Fenton. We can't wait for them to open up. We're definitely going to do a video
exclusively on Fenton when everything is up and running and in addition to some great restaurants,
bars, and shopping, there is a really, really, cool movie theater that's just opened up. So
Paragon is a chain out of Florida. They're known as a luxury movie theater chain and
the one in Fenton is no different. They have these luxe boxes, which you can reserve online
and it's like plush loveseats with like barriers on each side and they recline and
you can order food in the luxe box and any of this is really cool. Speaking of food, there's
a restaurant and a bar inside this theater. Amazing. They'll bring it to you or you can
eat before you go into the movie theater, all of that. Definitely ups the ante in our area about
being able to go see a movie. Definitely something very exciting and super exciting that you can go
do that in Fenton, right after having or right before having a really, really, great meal.
The next thing you can do in the summer is go get some local ice cream. Let's start with Howling
Cow. So this is locally made ice cream made by NC state students at their dairy farm lab.
And they sell it in a building off of Lake Wheeler road in south Raleigh. Amazing,
amazing, ice cream. They have it at the state fair every year, definitely somewhere you want to go
when you're at the state fair to grab you some ice cream, but now you can get any time of the
spring summer at this building in south Raleigh. And we need to give a special shout out to John
Labis. Who's one of our loyal viewers who made a comment, letting us know about the Howling Cow
and we are gonna go check it out as soon as we're off of our diets and let you guys know about it,
but you check it out first and comment and the comments below what your thoughts are on it.
And beyond Howling Cow, there's also Good Berries. So Good berries is frozen custard,
not ice cream. It's been around for many, many years. Locations all around the triangle.
Basically you can take this frozen custard and they have like three flavors a day,
mix in fruits or candies chocolates and create a concrete. And they literally take it and turn
it upside down. It doesn't come out because it's so solid. It's delicious stuff. I always
try to get like a giant large one and then eat it slowly. I think that's just the best way to do it.
Definitely recommend checking out Good Berries, great thing. And they all have outdoor seating
because they don't have any indoor seating. So great place to go on a warm summer night.
Next great thing you can do over the summer is visit Chapel Hill. So Chapel Hill is a
great place to visit any time of the year, but it's especially great in the summer because
school is out. Less people are around, easier to navigate and get around. In addition, even though
it's really warm in the triangle. Chapel Hill is included over the summer, there's lots of trees
and foliage. So you're gonna have plenty of shade, especially walking around the campus. Lots to do
in Chapel Hill. There's the Coker Arboretum. There's the North Carolina Botanical Gardens.
There's tons of museums around the campus, shops, restaurants, that sort of thing. Chapel
Hill is really a great town and if you have the ability, time to do it, we would recommend doing
a staycation for like a weekend. Stay in Chapel Hill, enjoying all the sites, have some nice
food and bar scene vibe going on in Chapel Hill. Definitely something we recommend.
Next thing you can do over the summer months is visit the area museum. So what better thing
is there to do over the hot summer months, then go visit a nice air conditioned museum. One of
our favorites is the North Carolina Art Museum. So the art museum has some really great outdoor
sculptures and artwork that you can stroll around and browse and get some fresh air
before it gets too warm. And then once it warms up during the day, you can go inside into this
massive art museum where you can spend a few hours or believe it or not even a few days,
this art museum is famous for having touring art installations that come. A few years ago,
there was a Rodin sculpture display that came, that was out of this world insane and so
definitely check out their website. They have some calendars of events coming and definitely worth
your time and trouble and as well there's many, many, other art museums such as the Marbles Kids
Museum downtown. That totally is worth your time, especially in the summer when it's nice and hot.
Next up, we have the Raleigh Rose Garden. This is near the NC state campus in west Raleigh. Open
seven days a week from dawn until dusk. It’s free to get in. It's an amazing display of roses for
all of the rose lovers out there. They have over 60 beds of rose display. I don't know what I'm
talking about, but it sounds pretty impressive. It is a beautiful place to be, where you can
commune with nature. Very Instagram-able. Very photographable. Definitely highly recommended. So
hope this has been helpful, giving you some things to do over your summer. Please check out this
video. We think you're gonna like it as well. If you are considering a move either into or out of
the Raleigh area, either in the summer or really time of the year, my team, and I would love to
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