Last Updated on January 9, 2023
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Welcome to our contest hub for The Best of North Carolina presented by NC Tripping. After a fun and busy year, we want you to support your favorite local businesses and travel destinations throughout North Carolina in 2022!
After two weeks of nominations and and two more weeks of voting we announced our winners for the Best of North Carolina 2022!
We also selected one participant (by email address) to receive a $100 Gift Card.
For future Best of NCs, we’ve provided more details about your chances to win and more below:
- List of Categories
- Prize Details
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List of Best of NC Categories
Here are the categories for this year’s Best of North Carolina:
- Getaways
- NC’s Most Romantic Place to Stay (each link leads to an article of ours to help you with ideas or travel inspiration)
- NC’s Most Family-Friendly Place to Stay
- NC’s Best Beach Town
- NC’s Most Underrated Getaway
- Outdoors
- NC’s Most Outdoor-Friendly Destination (City or Town)
- NC’s Best Park (State Park, State Forest, National Parks Site, City Park, etc.)
- NC’s Best Place to Go Camping
- NC’s Most Beautiful Waterfall
- Food and Drink
- NC’s Best Food City (or Town)
- NC’s Best Breakfast Restaurant
- NC’s Best Barbecue Restaurant
- NC’s Best Ice Cream Shop
- NC’s Best Doughnut Restaurant
- NC’s Best Hot Dog Restaurant
- NC’s Best Brewery
- NC’s Best Winery
- NC’s Best Distillery
- Community
- NC’s Friendliest Small Town
- NC’s Most Fun City
- NC’s Best Annual Festival
- NC’s Best Museum
- NC’s Best Locally Owned Business
If you participate and if your business or destination were up for an award, we will announce the results here! We will also randomly choose 1 participant (by email address) to win a $100 gift card.
To qualify for the $100 gift card, you must complete all nomination categories and voting categories.
If you’d like to sponsor future contests like this one, advertising info is available here.
Read More: The Best of North Carolina 2021
The Best of North Carolina Travel Guides
Once you’ve finished your picks for The Best of North Carolina, here are some of the 450-plus North Carolina travel guides that we’ve created.
