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 in 2020 for an all-new schedule of fun events for racers and spectators alike. This year, mark your calendars for the Summit ET Series; a…

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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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As long as there have been governments, there have been taxes. And since governments began trying to collect those taxes, people have looked for ways to avoid them. That's the story of moonshine and…

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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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Just how fast is 200 miles per hour? A skydiver, cutting through the clouds, can reach speeds of up to 160mph. The AH-64 helicopter has a top cruising speed of 176mph. The TGV, France’s high-speed…

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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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It doesn't happen often in the South. But when it does, snow has the unique ability to fill Southerners with both dread and wonder. The dread part comes when we accept that, unlike our Northern…

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JCVB Blog Posts

Category - Attractions

Racing in Johnston County – 2020 GALOT Schedule

The American Music Jubilee is Now Live @ The Rudy

Clayton Fear Farm is Open for Fun and Fright

'White Liquor and White Lies' details county's history of moonshining

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

Mad Mule Pro Mod Shootout at GALOT Motorsports Park

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

A Little Snow in JoCo

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