Category: National Park

Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is a unique wetland habitat where you can see and experience all types of wildlife located here on the Outer Banks. Located on Roanoke Island is where you'll find this great refuge that is a little over 152,000 acres of reserved & protected

The Outer Banks is filled with many historic National Parks and other fun educational side trips that you and your family can enjoy while on vacation. Visiting these places can not only help you relax a bit, but maybe get in a few extra homeschooling lessons along the way. Staying in one of our

One of the best things about vacationing to the Outer Banks is all of the fantastic parks in the area. We wanted to share with you one of the National Parks located in Manteo, Fort Raleigh, which happened to be England's first home in the new world. Staying in one of our OBX vacation rentals will

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina a small fishing village on an isolated strip of beach on the mid Atlantic coast provided the perfect opportunity for two brothers from Ohio to make their dreams come true. The Outer Banks is such a special and magical place and the Wright Brothers knew it only too

Shelly Island, a new island that has formed off the Point at Cape Hatteras. Photo Virginian Pilot.Barrier islands are pretty dynamic places and today's evidence of that is Shelly Island, an islet that has formed just off the

Bodie Island Lighthouse from the trail on the western side of the site.Usually when we write about the weather on the Outer Banks, it's because there's something nasty to report—hurricanes, n'or easters, that type of

Chris Shultz of HQ Kites helping a young kite flyer.All things considered it was a really nice day for the Wright Kite Festival at the Wright Brothers Monument. Kitty Hawk Kites has been sponsoring the event for a lot of

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.Now that the weather is getting better, it's time to think about the view from the top—in this case the top of Outer Banks lighthouses. The two lighthouses that are part of Cape Hatteras

Receiving the certificate of citizenship.Thirty-nine new citizens were welcomed to the Outer Banks yesterday at a swearing in ceremony at the Wright Brothers Memorial.It was an amazing event—emotional, awe-inspiring and

The view from the top of the Wright Brothers Monument. Photo, Kati Wilkins, North Beach Sun. Mystery solved! This summer for the first time in over 25 years the National Park Service is going to open the Wright Brothers