Oak Ridge is a town in northwestern Guilford County, North Carolina, United States.

[6] Oak Ridge is 15 miles (24 km) northwest of the center of Greensboro, North Carolina's third-largest city, and it is a part of the Piedmont Triad urban area.

Until the late 1990s, the Oak Ridge area was mostly rural farmland with numerous tobacco farms.

North Carolina Highway 150 (named "Oak Ridge Road") leads east to Summerfield, and west to Kernersville.

North Carolina Highway 68 is the main north-south highway through town, and leads north to US 158 in Stokesdale, and south to Interstates 73 and 40 on the west side of Greensboro; downtown Greensboro is 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Oak Ridge.

Piedmont Triad International Airport is 5 miles (8 km) south of the center of Oak Ridge.