The Triangle: Our Methodology

As people who have lived here for decades now, we feel like this becomes a more and more difficult question to answer, so we decided on a definition that we feel does pretty good justice: a 35-mile circle around the geographical center of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. We're not getting crazy exact with it, we just needed to have a rule to follow. 35 miles covers "Burlington", if something is happening in Burlington but the specific address falls outside of that circle, we'll list it. We just needed to have some sort of boundary, so if a city center falls inside our circle we'll include anything with that town/city's address.

As luck would have it, the geographical center of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, as triangulated by Google Maps is exactly this point on I-40 in South Durham, right where the Durham Freeway (aka 885) splits off.

The circle looks like this: