--- title: "The HPU Parents Guide — Where to Stay & What to Do When You Visit High Point University | Hygge High Point Blog" url: https://www.hyggehighpoint.com/blog/high-point-university-parents-guide description: "The complete High Point University parents guide: where to stay near HPU, when to book for Move-In Day, Family Weekend and graduation, campus tips, and the best restaurants and things to do in High Point, NC." lang: en --- Back to Blog: https://www.hyggehighpoint.com/blog HYGGE _High Point_: https://www.hyggehighpoint.com/ Hygge High Point on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/highpointhygge/ Hygge High Point on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hyggehighpoint Check Availability Book: https://book.ratherbeproperties.com/listings/440706 Image: Red brick collegiate building with white columns and clock tower framed by oak trees on a university campus in High Point North Carolina at golden hour (https://www.hyggehighpoint.com/assets/high-point-university-parents-guide-D4M2nVG_.jpg) September 29, 2026 # The HPU Parents Guide — Where to Stay & What to Do When You Visit High Point University If your student attends **High Point University**, you already know the drill: you will be making the drive to **High Point, North Carolina** more than once a year. Between **Move-In Day**, **Family Weekend**, Homecoming, admitted-student visits, spring events and **graduation**, HPU families spend a lot of weekends in this city — and the first question is always the same. _Where do we stay?_ This is a practical guide for **HPU parents**: when to book, what each big weekend looks like, why a **vacation rental near High Point University** usually beats a hotel room, and what to do with your free hours while your student is in class or at practice. ## The HPU Visiting Calendar — Know Your Weekends High Point University runs a busy campus-events calendar, and lodging across the **Piedmont Triad** tightens around each one. These are the dates that matter most to parents: **August Move-In Day.** The single biggest arrival weekend of the year. Thousands of families roll into the city with loaded SUVs. Hotels near campus book out months ahead, and many families arrive a day early to unpack without rushing. **Family Weekend (fall).** The classic parent visit — campus events, a football or basketball game, and long dinners downtown. Expect restaurants near campus to have waits on Saturday night. **Homecoming.** Alumni and current families overlap, which squeezes lodging further than most people expect. **Admitted Students & Scholarship Weekends (winter–spring).** If you are touring HPU with a high schooler, these are the visits where a quiet, comfortable place to regroup as a family really pays off. **Commencement in May.** The hardest weekend of the year to find a room in High Point. Graduation brings extended families — grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles — all needing beds in the same city on the same two nights. One more calendar to check: **High Point Market** runs each April and October and brings roughly **75,000 visitors** to town. If your campus visit overlaps with Market, book unusually early. ## Hotel Room vs. Whole-Home Rental Near HPU Most first-year HPU parents book a hotel. Most returning parents switch to a **vacation rental in High Point**. Here is why: **A real kitchen.** After a few weeks of dining-hall food, nothing lands better with a college student than a home-cooked meal. A full kitchen also means breakfast before an early campus event instead of a hotel lobby waffle. **Room to actually gather.** A living room lets your student bring a roommate or two over. Two hotel rooms give you two hotel rooms — a rental gives you a home. **Laundry.** Dorm laundry is a universal complaint. A **washer and dryer** in your rental quietly solves it for the weekend. **Better math for bigger groups.** Once you are booking two rooms — or traveling with grandparents for **HPU graduation** — a whole home is often the cheaper option per person, not the splurge. **Parking and quiet.** Free parking at the door, no elevator lines on move-in morning, and a quiet street when you want to collapse at the end of a long campus day. ## Where to Stay: Hygge High Point **Hygge High Point** is a beautifully updated **1920s home** just minutes from the **High Point University campus** and downtown. It sleeps **5 guests** across **2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms**, with a fully equipped kitchen, fast Wi-Fi for anyone working remotely between campus events, a smart TV, a **washer and dryer**, keyless entry for late arrivals, and a **fully fenced yard with a propane firepit**. It is also **pet friendly**, which matters more than you would think — plenty of HPU families bring the family dog along, and the fenced yard means the dog is fine while you are on campus. For **Family Weekend** or **graduation**, the firepit and string lights out back turn into the easiest celebration spot in town. ## Getting Around High Point High Point is an easy driving city — no real traffic, no parking garages to fight. From a central base you are a short drive from the HPU campus, downtown restaurants, and the shops. **Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO)** is roughly 25 minutes away, **Greensboro** about 20 minutes, and **Winston-Salem** about 30 — handy if relatives are flying in for graduation. ## Where to Eat With Your Student **Penny Path Café** — the independent coffee shop near campus, ideal for a slow Saturday morning before events start. **Kepley's Barbecue** — serving Lexington-style **North Carolina BBQ** since 1948. Take out-of-town grandparents here. **Sweet Old Bill's** — the local answer to "best burger in High Point." Casual, generous, always busy. **Brown Truck Brewery** — craft beer in a converted warehouse with food trucks and weekend live music. A good landing spot for parents once the student heads back to the dorm. **Europa Bar & Café** — the upscale pick for a graduation or birthday dinner. Reserve early on big weekends. **Boba House** — Asian fusion and bubble tea downtown, and reliably a student favorite. ## What to Do While Your Student Is Busy Campus weekends have gaps. Fill them with the best of **things to do in High Point, NC**: **Walk the Bicentennial Greenway** — 10+ miles of paved trail through forest and meadow, great for a morning run. **High Point City Lake Park** — 339 acres with a lakeside loop trail, fishing piers and picnic shelters, gorgeous in the fall. **Piedmont Environmental Center** — 11 miles of free nature trails and a small nature museum on the lakeshore. **The High Point Museum and the John Coltrane statue** — the city raised the jazz legend, and downtown honors him with a bronze statue on Commerce Avenue. **Furnitureland South and the furniture outlets** — you are in the **Furniture Capital of the World**. Plenty of HPU parents furnish an apartment or a house back home on a campus visit. ## Booking Tips for HPU Parents **Book three to six months out** for Move-In, Family Weekend and graduation — earlier for Commencement. **Add a night on either end.** Arriving the evening before Move-In or Family Weekend turns a stressful morning into an easy one. **Coordinate with other families.** Roommates' parents often want the same weekends; a whole home makes shared dinners simple. **Book direct where you can.** Booking straight through the property manager skips platform service fees, which adds up across four years of visits. ## Your Home Base for Four Years of HPU Visits Every **High Point University** family ends up with a routine — the same drive, the same restaurants, the same weekend rhythm. **Hygge High Point** is built to be the comfortable, familiar part of that routine: a quiet, cozy home minutes from campus, with room for family, a kitchen for real meals, and a backyard firepit for celebrating whatever milestone brought you to town. 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