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Walk Uptown Charlotte on your own schedule using a GPS-guided app that links the Harvey B. Gantt Center to the Old Settlers Cemetery. The self-guided route highlights African-American history, Revolutionary War sites, and urban architecture in 60–90 minutes.
Walk Uptown Charlotte on your own schedule using a GPS-guided app that links the Harvey B. Gantt Center to the Old Settlers Cemetery. The self-guided route highlights African-American history, Revolutionary War sites, and urban architecture in 60–90 minutes.
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Operated by WalknTours · Charlotte, North Carolina
The city opens around you: glass towers reflect late-afternoon sun while brick facades and narrow lanes hold fragments of older Charlotte. Start at the Harvey B. Gantt Center and you’re immediately in a conversation—murals, monuments and markers that point to stories of industry, civic life and African-American culture. The tour moves through tree-lined avenues, past a small churchyard, across Tryon Street’s clock face and finishes at the Old Settlers Cemetery where stones hold the city’s quieter chapters.
easy.
60–90 minutes.
Suitable for most fitness levels; requires continuous walking on paved urban streets for up to 1.5 hours.
Download the WalknTours app, create an account, open the Charlotte tour and enter the experience code path2780; begin outside the Harvey B. Gantt Center at 551 S Tryon St.
Yes — the tour follows sidewalks and paved park paths and is marked as wheelchair accessible across the itinerary.
Yes — the app route is available anytime, but some exterior sites and markers may be less visible after dark; use caution crossing streets.
No — this is a self-guided experience unlocked in the app and can be taken at your own pace without a live guide.
Charlotte grew from a late-18th-century courthouse town and trading path intersection into a 19th-century textile and gold-rush era hub; many Uptown place names recall colonial and indigenous routes like the Catawba Indian Path.
Stay on sidewalks and respect cemetery boundaries; support urban canopy by disposing of trash properly and minimizing noise around historic sites.
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