Photo of Trudy Wade About District 5

District 5 encompasses the University of North Carolina – Greensboro in the northeast and generally follows High Point Road and I40 on the east. The district is bordered on the south by the City limits and west along Dolley Madison Road, Shelby Drive and West Wendover Avenue.

The district has a long history of being an important part of Greensboro's history. Of particular interest in this district are:
  •  Aycock Auditorium – This popular auditorium originally opened in 1927 seats 2300 people and is used for our large musical productions. Aycock Auditorium is located on the corner of Spring Garden and Tate Streets.
  •  Folk Teen Center – Folk Teen Center, 3910 Clifton Road, caters to Greensboro’s teenagers with year round events and programs. The flagship program, Youth First, partners with non-profit organizations and service providers for teenagers and their families. Choosing a book
  •  Hemphill Library – The Hemphill Branch Library, 2301 W. Vandalia Road, is an innovative combination of art gallery and public library. You will find all the traditional services you expect from your neighborhood library, plus art exhibits and an ArtQuest studio. Other features include a reading garden, a family room, and a special tree house.
  •  Hester Park – Offers the following amenities: fishing lakes, fishing piers (one designed for physically challenged visitors), fitness and exercise trail, gazebo, horseshoe pits, picnic shelters, picnic sites and grills, playgrounds programmed soccer and football fields, sand volleyball courts, tennis courts, and softball field.
  •  Ice House – An indoor rink open year round the Greensboro Icehouse offers figure skating and ice skating lessons to all. Adult and youth ice hockey leagues are available as well as public skating sessions, all at 6119 Landmark Center Boulevard.
  •  Lindley Park – Lindley Park, a residential neighborhood centered around a public park, renews and invigorates its 1917 origins in the 21st Century. In 2004, the City of Greensboro and the Lindley Park Neighborhood Association, formed in 1993, partnered to develop a Neighborhood Plan that would determine needs and concerns of the neighborhood, evaluate alternative solutions, outline strategies, and determine implementation procedures and resources.
  •  Lindley Recreation Center – 2907 Springwood Drive is home to this neighborhood center with such sessions as an after school program, stamp collecting, youth basketball and cotillion etiquette, all in a facility with a kitchen, gym and several meeting rooms.Emerald Point
  •  Trotter Recreation Center – This center at 3906 Betula Street offers a variety of programs with an emphasis on health with T.O.P.S, Step Aerobics and senior exercise classes.
  •  Wet ‘N Wild Emerald Pointe Water Park – This largest water park in the Carolinas offers over 36 different rides at 3910 South Holden Road open from Memorial Day through Labor Day only.