Third Ward · Full day
Third Ward on a game day
Museums in the morning, a park in the afternoon, and a stadium eight minutes from where you started.
- Time needed
- Full day
- Stops
- 6
- On foot
- 2 miles
- Wards covered
- One
Third Ward is the quadrant that turns a ticket into a day. Four arts institutions sit on one corner, a ballpark and a five-acre park share a block, and Bank of America Stadium is a short walk from all of it.
Build the day backward from kickoff or first pitch. Everything below is walkable, and none of it requires moving a car once you have parked.
Best for. Sports visitors, museum-goers, groups
The route
Stop by stop
10:00 a.m.
Third Ward
Levine Center for the Arts
Four institutions on one block: the Mint Museum Uptown, the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Harvey B. Gantt Center and the Knight Theater. Pick two unless you have all morning.
12:00 p.m.
Third Ward
Lunch on South Tryon or Church Street
The deepest independent restaurant bench inside the loop, supported year-round by the daytime office population rather than by tourists.
1:30 p.m.
Third Ward
Romare Bearden Park
Terraces, water and lawn beside Truist Field. On event days it becomes Uptown's front yard; on quiet days it is the best place in the city to sit with the skyline behind you.
2:30 p.m.
Third Ward
Truist Field
The Charlotte Knights' ballpark, framed so the skyline sits directly behind center field. Worth a lap of the concourse even without a ticket.
4:00 p.m.
Third Ward
Duke Energy Center plaza
786 feet, LEED Platinum, and the color-changing crown that lights the southern skyline after dark. The plaza reads the ward's scale better than any photograph.
5:30 p.m.
Third Ward
Bank of America Stadium
Home of the Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC. Gates typically open well before kickoff; the walk from the museum block takes under ten minutes.
Before you go
- Confirm event times directly with the team or venue; gate policies change season to season.
- Street closures around the stadium begin hours before kickoff. Park once, on the north side of the ward, and walk.
- The Rail Trail and Blue Line put South End within ten minutes if the evening runs long.
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The Wards
Third Ward
Third Ward · SW quadrant
The southwest quadrant: Romare Bearden Park, Truist Field, Bank of America Stadium, Gateway Village and the Duke Energy Center.
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Third Ward on a game day, answered
Direct answers to what readers most often ask about this part of Uptown. Each answer cites the primary source it rests on.
All Uptown Charlotte questions →What is there to do in Third Ward, Uptown Charlotte?
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Third Ward holds Bank of America Stadium, Truist Field, Romare Bearden Park and the Levine Center for the Arts — the Mint Museum Uptown, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Harvey B. Gantt Center and Knight Theater. It also has the deepest independent restaurant bench inside the loop.
Can you walk from the museums to Bank of America Stadium?
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Yes. The Levine Center for the Arts block on South Tryon is roughly an eight to ten minute walk from Bank of America Stadium, entirely on flat sidewalks. Most visitors park once and walk the whole day.
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