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Mercer University - - What To Do And See

 

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Show your kids a good time, during your stay in Macon, by taking them to the Starcadia Entertainment Park, located on Starcadia Circle, featuring 6 acres of fun activities, rides, bumper boats, rock climbing walls and many other `treats`.

 

Visit the Cannonball House and Museum, which can be found on Mulberry Street, where you can find out more about Macon's lifestyle, during the Civil War, through interesting displays.

 

Try out your golfing skills at Bowden Golf Course, situated on Millerfield Road.

 

Explore the Woodruff House, on Bond Street, considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the city.

 

Sports & outdoor events

One of the most popular annual sporting events is considered to be the Macon Labor Day Road Race, taking place in September, in downtown Macon.

 

The event is celebrating its 34th edition, in 2010, and as always, this family-friendly Macon tradition, expects hundreds of participants and spectators. The 5k and the 10k races feature a fast, point-to-point course, throughout downtown Macon, continuing into Central City Park, where numerous cheering fans, friends and lots of fun awaits the runners.

 

This celebration is considered to be "one not to miss", according to previous Macon visitors, and it is growing in both size and popularity, each year, attracting a much larger number of people, every time it happens.

 

Festivals

The Cherry Blossom Festival is perhaps the most expected annual celebration in Macon. This `photogenic` event is scheduled on March 19-28, in 2010, and it offers visitors all kinds of entertainment, accompanied by southern hospitality, including a colorful parade that catches the eyes, a fun bed race, great outdoor concerts, and much, much more.

 

Every time the Cherry Blossom Festival takes place, the city transforms into a colorful paradise of delights, where visitors can enjoy more than sufficient entertaining, family-friendly, festival-like treats, making them come back to Macon, every year.

 

Nightlife

Macon's nightlife scene can be described in one word: energetic. The city offers all the necessary ingredients you're searching for in order to provide the maximum amount of nightly excitement anyone can think of, featuring everything from casual, quiet bars and pubs, to high-energy clubs and lounges.

 

Among the places that fit on the list of the most popular and favorite nightspots in Macon, there are: 550 Blues, located on Riverside Drive, Adam's Lounge, situated on Old Gray Highway, Black Pearlz, on Cavalier Drive, Club Sinsations, situated on Riverside Drive, Dirty Iguana, on Plum Street, the Friends Lounge, on Chambers Road, Jonita's Press Club, on Eisenhower Parkway, the Whiskey River, located on Pio Nono Avenue and Studio 32, which can be found on Shurling Drive.