Have Fun Downtown
Nighttime Fountain at Morgan Square
Dining and Shopping
Downtown Spartanburg offers a multitude of things to experience. If you're looking for great food, downtown has a variety of choices including Thai, Japanese, Greek and Italian restaurants. How about an Irish pub or some wood fired pizza? Try a European bistro, coffee shop, wine bar or cigar bar for after-hours fun. Downtown Spartanburg offers a multitude of boutiques, gift shops and art galleries.
Entertainment
And you will always find the best of entertainment at the new $44 million Chapman Cultural Center, home to Ballet Spartanburg, The Spartanburg Little Theatre, The Spartanburg Art Museum, The Regional History Museum and The Spartanburg Science Center. Hub-Bub offers more than 100 nights of art, culture and entertainment a year in the Showroom Gallery and Performance Hall including concerts, film, progressive art exhibits, experimental theatre, workshops, community forums and more. Have an event? Check out the beautiful venues offered at The Inn on Main, The Duncan Estate or The Marriott Spartanburg.
Parks and Recreation
Spartanburg was named one of the 31 founding cities by the Playful City USA initiative, for its long-range goal accomplishments for parks and recreation. Today Spartanburg offers over 20 area parks, five recreational facilities, a swim center and over 100 miles of hiking and bike trails. Spartanburg is home to over 87 miles of local bicycling routes, and is the first place in South Carolina to receive designation as a Bicycle-Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists.
Spartanburg has it's own outdoor leadership school located in Glendale, just 10 minutes from downtown. Glendale Outdoor Leadership School has an indoor rock climbing wall, mountain bike and kayak facility and also offers wilderness and leadership training for individuals of all ages and abilities. The facility is an excellent place to meet other outdoor and environmental enthusiasts and learn more information about all the outdoor recreation locations in Spartanburg.
To learn more about Glendale Outdoor Leadership School, visit the web site at www.setgols.org.
The NFL Carolina Panthers hold their annual summer training camp at Wofford College, with practice sessions open to the public.