Both terminals have restaurants, newsstands and smaller versions of North Carolinian stores such as A Southern Season and the ACC Store. Terminal 2 is brand new, modern, and as pleasurable as an airport can be, and services most major US airlines including American Airlines/American Eagle, Continental, Delta and United Airlines. Terminal 1 currently services only one airline, Southwest. The nearest commercial airport is Raleigh-Durham International Airport ( ICAO: KRDU, IATA: RDU). Some roads have bike lanes or wide shoulders, and there are also several bike-only paths however, these tend to be short and do not tend to serve as transportation routes, but rather as exercise areas. The Carrboro area is somewhat bike-friendly, while Chapel Hill is spotted by steep hills and poorly lit stretches of road. Nearby Carrboro and Durham are home to a growing LGBTQ population, though the 2012 passing of NC Amendment 1 undoes much of the progress made towards gay rights in the area (as a state university, UNC at Chapel Hill will be forced to revoke the numerous benefits that were available to LGBTQ students, staff, and faculty, for example).Ĭhapel Hill's government has sometimes had an adversarial relationship with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Town Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt is Chapel Hill's first openly gay mayor. Most protests in Chapel Hill are peaceful and pose no threat to visitors that do not want to participate in them. The traditional locus of this is the Post Office on Franklin Street. It is not uncommon to see a protest in Chapel Hill and/or on the university’s campus for various liberal causes. Although legend says that the town became liberal when a Union general married former UNC President Swain’s daughter, Chapel Hill’s liberal politics are similar to many US college towns and are bolstered by nearby Carrboro, which is known for being a bastion of liberalism in the state. While much of North Carolina is conservative, Chapel Hill is fairly liberal in comparison. (The Carolina Inn of Chapel Hill now stands where the chapel once was.) The town was founded in 1819 to support the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The church happened to be situated on a hill. The town was originally a small village of 1000 people consisting of mostly Scottish and English immigrants arriving in the area during the 1700s the village took its name from the New Hope Chapel east of the settlement.

It is 28 miles northwest from Raleigh, 12 miles southwest from Durham and 115 miles from Charlotte. Chapel Hill is in North Carolina and makes up the western-most point of the Research Triangle, commonly known as the Triangle and not to be confused with the group of North Carolina cities known as the Piedmont Triad ( Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem).

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