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Mooresville North Carolina is Race City, USA
Mooresville North Carolina is also known as Race City, USA, due to the more than 60 NASCAR teams and racing related businesses that call it their home.
Some notable residents include NASCAR drivers Kasey Kahne, Joe Nemechek, Reed Sorenson and Greg Biffle as well as the deceased Dale Earnhardt.
Mooresville features two automotive museums: The Memory Lane Motorsports and Historical Automotive Museum and the North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame also serves as the town’s official visitor’s center, where you can see Alan Kulwicki’s championship winning 1992 Ford, and Curtis Turner’s famous “Purple Hog", a 1956 Ford race car.
Mooresville is located in southern Iredell County in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. The Town is located between the Charlotte North Carolina metropolitan area and the city of Statesville, North Carolina.
The area enjoys 520 miles of shoreline due to Lake Norman, the state’s largest man-made lake. There are lots of activities for the whole family; from local sporting events, to NASCAR, to boating, fishing, swimming, North Carolina skiing, golfing, shopping the outlet stores and even Panthers football.
Many families enjoy the day trips around North Carolina to visit the mountains, the beautiful North Carolina beaches, the Biltmore Estate in Asheville North Carolina, ghost town, Tweetsie Railroad and shopping in Blowing Rock North Carolina, Old Salem in Winston-Salem North Carolina or the Asheboro Zoo.
Mooresville, North Carolina is so close to so many North Carolina attractions it's one of our great vacation spots for whatever you are looking to do, whether that means laying on one of the many North Carolina beaches or engaging in any of the great North Carolina activities available!
