Browse the dataset
The same data as the map and the graph, arranged for actually finding something: six axes, cascading columns, and a card at the end of every path. Start with the neighborhoods (the uptown wards, out along the rail corridor, then the mill towns and the edges), or with what you want to eat.
6 axes · 346 places · 2184 rows · 866 cards
PLATE XV — HOLDINGS SUNBURST
What the collection holds, district by district
- First Ward · 15
- Second Ward · 17
- Third Ward · 13
- Fourth Ward · 12
- South End · 20
- LoSo & South Boulevard · 21
- Dilworth · 11
- Elizabeth · 15
- Plaza Midwood · 22
- East Charlotte · 17
- Myers Park · 11
- SouthPark · 21
- Wesley Heights · 10
- Historic West End · 11
- West Charlotte · 13
- NoDa · 20
- Camp North End · 10
- University City · 10
- North Charlotte · 13
- Steele Creek & Whitewater · 17
- Matthews & Mint Hill · 15
- Day-trips ring · 32
Angle — place count · inner ring — district · outer ring — primary category within it · click any wedge to open that drawer in the columns below
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The whole holding at a glance — every wedge opens the matching drawer in the columns below.
Cuisine genres are folded out of the authored cuisine tags, so a place calling itself “Seafood & steak” sits under both Seafood and Steak & Chops — it genuinely belongs in both, and filing it once would hide it from half the people looking. Places outside the corridors get their own areas rather than a fabricated position on someone else’s grid. Person and era cards read here but don’t link out yet — only place, category and district cards carry a link. (People now have pages at /person/[slug]; wiring those cards to them is a small change this page has not had.)
Browse everything
Every section of the guide in one flat list, grouped under the four hubs the top rail carries — for when you want the shape of the whole site rather than a path through the 346 places above.
Everything in the guide
Every section of the guide, grouped the way the compass groups it. The four hubs are the four hub bearings on the card.
Narrows the section names below. Looking for a place, an event or a deal? Search the guide searches the content itself.
Today
What is happening right now?
- Today in CLTSunrise to last call: what is open, on and happening today.
- What's onThe full calendar, today through the end of the season.
- Fest CentralThe festival taking over town right now, or the next one.
- Game day & the teamsWho is home next for all four teams, the train that gets you there, and each club as a civic institution.
- Free todayWhat costs nothing: free-admission events, every park and greenway, and the sourced free doors.
- DealsReal, dated offers — happy hours, specials, what is on tonight.
- NightlifeBars, live music and where the night actually goes.
- CLT LiveThe social pinboard: what people are posting from town right now.
- NewsWhat changed in town, dated and sourced — openings, closings, town decisions.
Explore
Where is it, and what is it?
- The mapThe stylised map of the whole island — the primary way in.
- City DirectoryEvery section and every place: cascading columns by street, food, district, era.
- Ride the Blue LineAll 26 stations north to south — live arrivals, live trains, and what's a walk from each platform.
- Ride the Gold LineAll 17 streetcar platforms west to east — the Historic West End through Uptown to Elizabeth.
- The bus corridorsNine CATS routes along the streets the guide is built on — what each reaches, and which are running.
- NeighborhoodsAll 17 districts — what each one is, the first-hour move, and how the rail reaches it.
- Every place, A–ZEvery place in the guide, A to Z, in one list.
- Guided toursCurated routes through the guide — on foot, by bike, or after dark by car.
- BreweriesNoDa, South End and Camp North End, taproom by taproom.
- Rail Trail & greenways3.5 flat miles beside the Blue Line, plus the creekside greenway network.
- Museums & Uptown artThe Bechtler, the Gantt, the Mint and Discovery Place, a few blocks apart.
- Day tripsGold mines, speedways and a whitewater river, all under an hour away.
- The lakesLake Norman, Mountain Island and Lake Wylie — where the public can actually reach the water.
- The airportLayovers, getting into town, and whether the FAA has a delay program in effect.
- AnswersThe questions visitors ask most, answered plainly.
- Worship servicesService times for churches and congregations in and around town.
- The AtlasThe guide's nineteen numbered plates — what each figure shows, and where it lives.
- Bird ListCharlotte's backyard and greenway birds — identify them, log them, chase the winter shinies.
History
How did this town happen?
- The whole historyThe town from the 1870s to now, as a timeline you can walk.
- ThreadsThe long arguments — the gold, the Meck Dec, Brooklyn, the banking duel — each told end to end.
- The threads, drawnAll eight arguments on one axis — where they cross, where they share a fact, and which are still running.
- The timelineEvery dated fact on one spine, in the order it happened.
- The wikiEvery article behind the guide, cross-linked.
- The RecordThe history written out as chapters — the crossing, the gold, the bulldozer, the banks.
- Knowledge graphHow it all connects — build a report from two dimensions and watch the physics draw every derived link.
- The LedgerThe graph as Banktown would keep it — a ruled matrix of stamped, counted connections.
- CrystalThe city as an ore map — zoom from district ore-bodies to every place as a crystal in the record.
- The LoomThe whole record woven around the city — every derived connection as a bundled thread.
Play
What can I play while I wait for the table?
- GamesEvery game in the guide, plus trivia and the leaderboard.
- TriviaHow well do you know this town? One round, no account.
- LeaderboardThis season's standings across every game.
- CrosswordFive grids cut from the guide — every answer a real Charlotte fact.
- Shiny Rock HuntWade a Piedmont creek turning rocks — gold is rare enough that a find means something.
- Gold Line OperatorDrive the CityLynx streetcar West End to Elizabeth — or the same street in 1891.
- The Trading PathWalk the long path south, trading as you go — the crossing became Trade & Tryon.
- The FoundryRun the converted arsenal as a working foundry — orders, metal, and the ghosts of 1862.
- FranchiseGet a club off the ground, then keep it — twelve seasons cut from the major-league record.
- Cabin ConstructorOne plot, one pile of logs — enclose the rooms, set the hearth, raise the roof.
About this guide
Who made this, and what is mine?
- Your tripPlan the days, one stop at a time, and keep it on this device.
- Search the guideOne box over places, events, deals, articles, streets and tours.
- Your accountYour saved things, your streak and your sign-in, in one place.
- Offline packYour trip, your pins and the schedule, cached for a dead zone.
- SettingsTheme, motion and what this device stores.
- HelpHow to use this guide: what a place page holds, and what it deliberately doesn't.
- Sign inKeep your trip, your pins and your streak across devices.
- Share this guideSend the guide, a place or your trip to someone else.
- AboutWho makes this, and the independence disclaimer in full.
- Colophon & sourcesEvery source, licence and credit behind the data and the art.
- Type specimensThe typefaces the guide is set in, at real sizes.
- AdvertiseHow a local business gets a listing, and what it costs.