If 8:15am is your departure time, not boarding time, I think 2 hours early (6:15am) is wise since you will have to add the commute from the parking lot. It has been packed in the mornings M-F lately and without Clear, I would have actually missed two of my flights. Aim to be in line one hour before boarding to avoid the stress.
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OK - Thanks. Good info.
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The standard security screening line may move faster in the near future because TSA will no longer require shoes to be removed. I suspect the airlines and airports have been pushing for this to alleviate massive backups during summer travel.
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Announcement for the Lake Crabtree land: RDU Recreation and Wellness Destination - Raleigh-Durham International Airport
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Same Dev folks as the Canes arena ‘district’…?
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Whitewater rafting? 
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It was already a wellness and recreation destination.
I still 
all over this for loosing the perfectly good bike trails.
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Was just at the national whitewater center in Charlotte and it’s absolutely amazing!
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The Charlotte one is 1300 acres, so I can’t imagine this one will really compete
Well ours connects to Umstead so add on 5,599 acres and now Charlotte can’t compete with us.
But seriously. They don’t have to “compete”. They can both just exist.
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Haha sure, but this won’t be the same revenue driver that the Charlotte one is. Not that it needs to be, think this is just another case of a Raleigh social media account exaggerating
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Maybe I missed the exaggeration? But the actual Charlotte whitewater center (not the parking and bike trails) fits very easily at Lake Crabtree… here’s a guess test fit to scale from January…
Also, Dundon doesn’t do things halfway.
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Big picture, this sounds like it could be an exciting regional draw. Maybe even something for our hot-ass summer weekends…
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Looks like the whitewater part of the whitewater center would fit, whoops. (though the Charlotte one is literally the biggest in the world, so I couldn’t imagine we’d build one to the same scale so close)
But this is so early in the process that I’m not getting my hopes up, maybe you’re more optimistic than I
Of that 1300 acres, 1200 is either forest or power line easement, so not really a fair comparison. It’s great, and who know what happens here, but c’mon.
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Here is the N&O write up on thr Lake Crabtree land. Sounds like there are no firm plans, but they want to build something that will compliment the recreation already existing, esp the biking. To me this seems the best out come for a situation that had to change due to law.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article310848320.html
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I’m still skeptical until more details are revealed. Can they at least open the trails back up for the time being, as all this will likely take years until they are actually ready to build anything?
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I was in Boulder, CO last week visiting my folks and brother. I was really impressed with the regional bus service from the Denver Airport. They had nice, coach style buses (not grimy city busses) where you put the luggage underneath, leaving the airport every 30 minutes out to Boulder. $10 flat fare with kids under 19 free. The bus does not stop until it’s gets to the general Boulder area, then hits a few park and rides coming into boulder, and ending downtown. Same thing on the way back.
Super easy, reasonable price, convenient, clean, and frequent enough that if you miss one, you are not waiting around for an hour. They run similar busses to other outer suburbs of Denver.
Not sure if something similar has ever been considered for RDU. I could see a bus out to the WF Area, one to Raleigh, Clayton, Apex / Holly Srings, Chapel Hill, Durham ect.
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