JCVB Blog Posts

The bureau staff and a host of local contributors write for our visitors and residents of JoCo, weekly blogs to promote what's happening in tourism around the county.

Category - Attractions

Start Your Engines! Come out to GALOT Motorsports Park for an evening of fun for racers and spectators alike. GALOT will be hosting many different racing events throughout the year and there is…

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Located along the I-95 Corridor at exit 97 in Selma, NC the long-running American Music Jubilee has been a Johnston County tradition for many years. Recently rebranded as Live @ The Rudy audiences…

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Boyette's Family Farms Inc. has farm fresh fun for the whole family. Johnston County locals and visitors have been traveling to Clayton to experience hayrides and haunted houses at Boyette's for many…

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Updated: 6/15/18 Did you know that Johnston County has a Rugby team? Well, it does. The Bootleggers. Appropriate for this area, no? Established in 2013 the Clayton Rugby Football Club, or the…

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The Clayton River Walk on the Neuse is a beautiful 4-mile, 10-foot wide paved trail that begins at the Wake/Johnston County line and parallels the Neuse River under Covered Bridge Road. Similarly,…

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In 2018, the Ava Gardner Museum opened the “Hemingway’s Heroine” Exhibit, which showcases Ava’s close friendship with Ernest Hemingway. This exhibit features, for the first time, a movie costume…

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The board members of the Ava Gardner Museum may have heard a thousand times that the fans of Ava Gardner are old, dying off, and that soon no one will remember her or visit the museum. That was 18…

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I sat down recently with April Phillips of Sonlight Farms. Sonlight is a new farm experience for families in Johnston County. April and her husband Josh own and manage a farm in the northern part of…

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Racing is just about as southern as sweet tea, mason jars, and Cheerwine. And it's a sport that is authentically North Carolina - NASCAR racers will forever live in the shadow of those who raced…

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According to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, "Agritourism is activity that incorporates tourism and agriculture by bringing individuals to farms, ranches,…

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JCVB Blog Posts

Category - Attractions

Racing in Johnston County – 2019 GALOT Schedule

The American Music Jubilee is Now Live @ The Rudy

Clayton Fear Farm is Open for Fun and Fright

Clayton Bootleggers Expanding Club with Professional Partnerships

Did You Know That the Mountains-to-Sea Trail Cuts Through JoCo?

Ava as “Hemingway’s Heroine” New Exhibit

Ava Gardner Museum is Still Standing, and They Said It Wouldn’t Last!

Spend Some Time at Sonlight Farms

First Class Racing Facility in the Land of Motorsports and Moonshine

From Haunted Hay Rides to Vineyard Tours - The Past and Future of Agritourism in JoCo

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