Things to do with your family near Hickory NC. Oudoor activities, restaurants, dessert, entertainment, and local favs.
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Outdoor Activities
Parks, Trails, & Playgrounds near Hickory North Carolina.
This park connects to Lake hickory trails! This part has covered areas for picknicks and lake views/access.
Rotary-Geitner Park | City of Hickory
This park has been a childhood favorite. Theres walking trails, hiking trails, a creek, picknick tables and sheds for parties and barbeque, and also there's an updated kids playground!
Glenn C. Hilton, Jr. Memorial Park
My favorite trails! One trail crosses the lake edge and its beautiful! This connects Hickory City Park and Geitner Park. You can also access the Greenway from here. Most of the trails are covered with trees which makes it nice and shady.
Lake Hickory Trails
Playgrounds for the kids, picknick tables for parties, a creek, and easy hiking trails! This is one of my kids favorite parks.
Winkler Park | City of Hickory
This one's for the kids! This is one of the best parks around. Theres so many things to climb on and a super long slide. There's also a splash pad on the lower level.
Kiwanis Park
There's a nice loop style, dog friendly, walking trail here, kayak send off, soccer fields, and kids play ground! There's actually 3 different playgrounds for the kids. Oh, and you can book the large covered area for parties.
Henry Fork River Park
This is my favorite spot for trails and just soaking up the sun and enjoying the lake view! There's trails for miles and a dogpark on entrance! It's so beautiful and peaceful.
Valdese Lakeside Park
Restaurants
Pizza, American, Italian, Japanese, Indian, Homestyle cooking and more!
Giant slices of pizza and its so good! Located near the Walmart
Frankie's Pizza: Home
Giant pizza in hickory NC! I love this pizza spot.
Tony's Pizza Hickory
A must try if you've never had pizza!
Marco's Pizza
Hands down the best wings in town!! I get boneless, no spice, parmesan peppercorn (and sometimes honey bbq) with a side of onion rings!
East Coast Wings + Grill - America's Best Wings
The best Japanese!! This is a family owned diner and is always busy. My fav is the shrimp teriyaki.
Akito
I doubt many people know this is here, but I get doordash orders from this place all the time!! Its delicious too.
Taj Indian Cuisine
If you're looking for Italian, Carrabbas needs to be on your list! This is my favorite all time Italian restaurant. My fav dish is the Chicken Bryan with fettuccini alfredo and a caesar salad!
Carrabba's Italian Grill
Wonderful buffet style steakhouse right outside of Hickory. I don't eat much steak, but this place is it when I want it!
Western Steer
Dine on the lake! They have American style food and delicious desserts! This one is really nice to change it up.
Copper Penny Grill
Delicious home style cooking! This place is always busy.
Granny's Country Kitchen - Hickory
Dessert Places
All about the desserts!! These are some of the best dessert places around Hickory!
The best donuts in town! They close when sold out so be sure to check their Facebook for updates. These are the best donuts around Hickory and they are extra large! I like the glazed twist filled with vanilla butter cream. Oreo is also good. This is ...
Donut Life
Enjoy home made ice cream and mini golf!!
Udderly Delicious Ice Cream - Hickory
It's like a buffet for frozen yogurt (ice cream)! My kids and I love this place!
sweetFrog® Premium Frozen Yogurt
They have different flavors each week and omg they are so freaking good!
Crumbl Cookies - Freshly Baked & Delivered Cookies
Mouthwatering bundt style cakes! They have different flavors and sizes. The reeces one is phenominal when they have it (it's seasonal), but otherwise, the oreo and chocolte are my favs.
Nothing Bundt Cakes: Delicious Bundt Cakes
This one's about 20 minutes outside of Hickory but worth the drive! It's a unique style of ice cream and so so good! They have the monster style milkshakes!
Toasted and Rolled
Arts & Entertainment
Fun indoor places to take the kids!
Really cool art museum! They feature a lot of the kids art from local schools which is pretty cook. Its connected to the Science center and library.
Hickory Museum of Art
Fun indoor place to take the kids!! They also have an aquarium and planetarium!
Catawba Science Center
This trampoline park is so much fun!!
DEFY Hickory | North Carolina | DEFY Trampoline Parks
There's a play place inside both Hickory and Viewmont ChicFilA's! It's only for little kids, but my toddler loves it!
Chick-fil-A
This is the most popular theater in Hickory. Be sure to check out the big D theater!
AMC Theatres
Baseball and fireworks! Check their schedule for the fireworks dates.
LP Frans Stadium Information
A really good bowling alley right outside of Hickory! Theres also outdoor mini golf too.
Pin Station
Local Favorites
Local favorites!
These guys are my fav hair salon! Ask for Ashley.
Martin & Co Hair Styling
A very unique experience right outside of Hickory! This place is wonderful.
Salt Cave | Wolf Moon Salt Cave and Stress Reduction Center ...
