The North Carolina Coast Features

The North Carolina Coast Features

  • Top Reasons to Go to The North Carolina Coast

    Water, water everywhere: Surfers delight in Cape Hatteras's mighty waves. Kayakers and boaters prefer the Crystal Coast's sleepy estuaries and... read more

  • First in Flight

    December 17, 1903, was a cold and windy day on the Outer Banks, but Wilbur and Orville Wright took little notice. The slightly built brothers... read more

  • To the Lighthouse

    Sooner or later while visiting the coast, you come within sight of one of the "mighty seven": a North Carolina lighthouse. These beacons were... read more

  • North Carolina's Pirates

    North Carolina's coast was a magnet for marauding sea dogs during the Golden Age of Piracy, a period in the first quarter of the 18th century... read more