Outer Banks Attractions

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ATTRACTIONS: Many Local Outer Banks Cultural Treasures

Kill Devil Hills

• Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor's center, exhibits, & monument, MP 8, Kill Devil Hills
• Wright Brothers Memorial Park 1401 National Park Drive. Manteo, North Carolina 27954. (252) 441-7430
• Dare County Family Recreation Park, west of Bypass
• The Nature Conservancy, Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve, 701 West Ocean Acres Drive, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948. (252) 441-2525

Nags Head

• Town Park, MP 11, Nags Head, enjoy trails through Nags Head Woods Preserve
• Jockey's Ridge State Park Largest sand-dune on East Coast. The entrance to the park, Carolista Drive, is in the town of Nags Head at milepost 12 on the Hwy 158 Bypass (South Croatan Hwy). (252) 441-7132
• Bodie Island Lighthouse Cape Hatteras National Seashore, MP 17, Nags Head

Roanoke Island

• Roanoke Island Festival Park Inlcudes Elizabeth II, and cultural center, near Manteo, NC
• North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island Manteo
• North Carolina Maritime Museum on Roanoke Island Manteo
• Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
• Lost Colony Outdoor Drama Manteo
• Elizabethan Gardens Manteo
• Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge Wetlands, trails, kayaking

Hatteras Island

• Wings Over Water Festival
• Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. 6,000 acre wildlife refuge with birds galore. Free.
• Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. known as America’s Lighthouse, is the tallest brick beacon in the country standing 208 feet.
• Cape Hatteras National Seashore Free.
• Frisco Native American Museum and Natural History Center, Frisco.
• Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station Historic Site. Rodanthe, MP 39.5
• Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. Hatteras Village.

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