Discover the World Famous North Carolina Outer Banks
If you are a Dare County resident tonight you can attend Preview Night at The Lost Colony at Waterfront Theatre on Roanoke Island. All Dare County residences get in free to see the first performance before the season starts tomorrow May 30, 2014 for the 2014 summer season. Hope the weather cooperates!
Cape Hatteras best beaches make the top 10 again for 2014. Cape Hatteras ranked as the #6 best beach on best beaches list by Dr. Stephen Leatherman of Florida International University and his annual best beaches ranking in the United States for the 2014 year. This is up 2 slots from last year when Cape Hatteras … Read more
The award wining and popular outdoor drama The Lost Colony starts the 2014 summer season at the Outer Banks on May 30 this year and runs until August 22, 2014. The outdoor drama is the story of the first attempt by an English settlement in 1587 to settle in the New World and then vanished … Read more
Beach travelers headed to the North Carolina Outer Banks have good news. Wright Memorial Bridge has been reopened to both lanes of traffic. Work on the bridge started last fall causing lane closures during the winter months. Now as promised, all lanes are open just in time for Memorial Day and the summer influx of … Read more
Ferry terminals on Hatteras and Ocracoke get new traffic cameras to check traffic and wait time. The NCDOT put a cameras at each of the ferry terminals, one on Hatteras Island and one on Ocracoke Island. Two other cameras will show traffic on Highway 12 in two separte areas on Ocracoke to monitor traffic and highway … Read more
Every May Jockey’s Ridge, the largest natural sand dune, has a 3 day hang gliding competition. This years event will be the 42 Annual Hang Gliding Spectacular, the longest running hang gliding competition in the world! It is free to come and watch! Watch the pros gang glide from Jockeys Ridge. It starts May 16 and last … Read more
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is getting a fresh coat of paint and the engraved lightkeeper stones (cut from the base when the lighthouse was moved in 1999) are being moved to a new location. The massive stone blocks are being moved closer to the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and will be placed in a semi-circle to form … Read more
