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Route Details

Start at the Visitor Info Center (noted by a circular red sign with a white lowercase i for “information”) on South Tryon Street between West Third Street and West Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK Jr.) Boulevard. Follow Tryon north toward Third Street. On the way to Third Street, look to your right at the artfully crafted bronze statues of children playing and splashing in the fountain waters.

Continue north on Tryon and pass Ruth’s Chris Steak House on your left. Trolleys run along Tryon Street, so feel free to hop aboard if you’d like a lift to a particular location along the Tryon Street route of this walk. Continue on Tryon and cross Fourth Street, passing the decorative and architecturally interesting Tryon Plaza on your right and First Citizens Bank Plaza on your left, where you are likely to see locals playing cards and chess games around the tables in front of the waterfall on the side of the building.

Continue to the Trade Street junction, where South Tryon becomes North Tryon and West Trade becomes East Trade. This is the official center of the city. The large and impressive statues on each corner here represent Charlotte’s commerce, transportation, industry, and future. Also, the first courthouse was built at this confluence and, according to some historians, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was read here, in 1775, during the American Revolution. With that declaration, the area’s colonists announced their desire to separate from England—prior to the 1776 Declaration of Independence.