The Meadows at Long Lake Apartments for Rent

The Meadows at Long Lake is a residential neighborhood in the 27613 zip code of Raleigh. The neighborhood is located 15 minutes from Downtown Raleigh and 25 minutes from Durham. It is bordered to the north by Tie Stone Way, to the south by Country Trail, to the east by Jeffrey Alan Court, and to the west by Shaker Heights. The neighborhood is close to Highway 70 and is 15 minutes from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

The Meadows covers .031 square miles. The middle-class neighborhood has houses, condominiums, townhouses, and apartments. It is a neighborhood with mostly married couples and married couples with families. The average age of a resident is 33. Public schools in the neighborhood include Leesville Road Elementary, Leesville Road Middle and Leesville Road High School.

The neighborhood is close to family friendly activities in and around Raleigh. The kid friendly North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is a four-story museum dedicated to the state’s geology, geography and wildlife. It has many exhibits of fossils found in North Carolina, including dinosaurs, restored dinosaur skeletons and whale skeletons.

Raleigh has 123 fishing lakes. The Meadows is close to the Upper Springdale Estates Lake and the Lower Springdale Estates Lake for fishing and canoeing. Big Lake is a fishing lake in William B. Umstead State Park, with a boathouse offering canoe or rowboat rental.

The William B. Unstead State Park has activities for families and groups. Hiking and equestrian trails are located in scenic and secluded areas of the park. Unstead has tent/trailer campgrounds, primitive campgrounds and the historic Maple Hill Lodge, built in the 1930s.