With numerous opportunities for indoor and outdoor recreation and world-class healthcare, High Point offers its residents many ways to stay active and healthy.
Staying Fit
Creating a personal exercise program is a breeze in High Point, which offers a wide range of outdoor recreational activities including more than 40 public parks, two lakes, and 5 golf courses. The 376-acre Piedmont Environmental Center, the High Point Greenway, and Bicentennial Greenway offer nine-and-a-half miles of paved greenway and 11 miles of unpaved hiking trails, while Oak Hollow Lake and City Lake Park provide opportunities for boating and fishing.
The Oak Hollow Marina offers sailing classes, sailboat rental, boat storage spaces, fishing from the banks and picnic areas. Featured amenities include Oak Hollow Golf Course, considered a prime municipal golf course and Blair Park Golf Course, conveniently located just outside the downtown district. Several private golf courses are also available nearby, including the High Point Country Club, offering two beautiful clubhouses, tennis courts, swimming pools and one of the state’s top golf courses.
For those who prefer indoor exercise, High Point offers the YMCA of High Point, Carl Chavis Memorial Branch YMCA, and YWCA, many of the major well-known fitness centers and a number of basketball and other indoor recreational facilities.
Staying Fit
Creating a personal exercise program is a breeze in High Point, which offers a wide range of outdoor recreational activities including more than 40 public parks, two lakes, and 5 golf courses. The 376-acre Piedmont Environmental Center, the High Point Greenway, and Bicentennial Greenway offer nine-and-a-half miles of paved greenway and 11 miles of unpaved hiking trails, while Oak Hollow Lake and City Lake Park provide opportunities for boating and fishing.
The Oak Hollow Marina offers sailing classes, sailboat rental, boat storage spaces, fishing from the banks and picnic areas. Featured amenities include Oak Hollow Golf Course, considered a prime municipal golf course and Blair Park Golf Course, conveniently located just outside the downtown district. Several private golf courses are also available nearby, including the High Point Country Club, offering two beautiful clubhouses, tennis courts, swimming pools and one of the state’s top golf courses.
For those who prefer indoor exercise, High Point offers the YMCA of High Point, Carl Chavis Memorial Branch YMCA, and YWCA, many of the major well-known fitness centers and a number of basketball and other indoor recreational facilities.
Local Healthcare
Founded in 1904, today High Point Regional UNC Health Care is a system with more than 2,500 staff members. High Point Regional Hospital offers 351 private beds for medical and surgical patients and serves over 120,000 patients each year with six primary service areas: Carolina Regional Heart Center, Hayworth Cancer Center, The Neuroscience Center, The Esther R. Culp Women’s Center, The Emergency Center and The Piedmont Joint Replacement Center. Other services offered include the Rehab Center, the Millis Regional Health Education Center, the Regional Wound Center, the Diabetes Self Care Management Center, The Vascular Center and High Point Behavioral Health.
High Point is home to two of the state’s top healthcare providers, High Point Regional UNC Health Care and Cornerstone Health Care, with four other regional healthcare systems within driving distance. Local primary service areas include centers for cardiac care, cancer treatment, neuroscience, women’s health, emergency medicine and joint replacement.
The area also offers 30 home healthcare providers, several urgent care centers, hearing aid centers, more than 15 exercise and wellness centers, nearly a dozen pharmacies and ten long-term care facilities.
Regional Medical Facilities
With a full offering of comprehensive medical providers and public safety services providing 24/7 protection, High Point is served by five regional health systems within a 30-mile radius, including Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston Salem, Bethany Medical in High Point and the Cone Health Network in Greensboro.
Regional Medical Facilities
With a full offering of comprehensive medical providers and public safety services providing 24/7 protection, High Point is served by five regional health systems within a 30-mile radius, including Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston Salem, Bethany Medical in High Point and the Cone Health Network in Greensboro.