Around the Outer Banks
Outer Banks Nonprofits: A Caring Community
Posted on July 9, 2018 in Around the Outer Banks.
Every community has certain characteristics that distinguishes it—that identifies it as unique from other places. Certainly the Outer Banks has features that people who live here would say mark it as a different community. This is a tourist driven economy. Living here, it is something that is accepted. In the offseason the pace of ...read more
Outer Banks Transportation System: Hope for the Road Weary
Posted on July 2, 2018 in Around the Outer Banks.
Once upon a time, when the number of visitors coming to the Outer Banks was perhaps half of what it is today, the highways and roads of the area were adequate to meet transportation needs. That is no longer the case. Visitors and locals are still able to move around fairly well, but there is no doubt that traffic has been steadily ...read more
Getting to Know The Outer Banks: Bike Paths
Posted on April 23, 2018 in Around the Outer Banks.
Three easy rides and a challenge. Mostly flat, but with some gentle hills, the Outer Banks is a bike rider’s paradise, and local towns and counties have put considerable effort into creating a network of interconnecting multi-use bike paths. The multi-use paths are so extensive that it is possible to ride from Bodie Island Lighthou ...read more
Getting to Know The Outer Banks: Smaller Parks
Posted on April 9, 2018 in Around the Outer Banks.
One of the problems that arises in writing about the Outer Banks is that there is so much to see and do, picking and choosing what’s best can become difficult. Almost impossible it seems at times. That is certainly the case when it comes to deciding how to describe the smaller parks that are part of the towns or county systems. The ...read more
Getting to Know The Outer Banks: Golf Courses
Posted on March 26, 2018 in Around the Outer Banks.
The Outer Banks has so much to do that it’s easy to overlook some of the best activities. For golfers, that may very well be the case, although local golf courses have built a reputation for great greens and beautiful scenery requiring a full range of skill levels. The courses are fairly close together—the longest ride between any ...read more
Grocery Store Wars on the Outer Banks
Posted on March 12, 2018 in Around the Outer Banks.
Now that Publix has entered the Outer Banks supermarketer mix it seems as though the local Grocery Store Wars are kicking into high gear. And with German discount supermarket chain Lidl planning on opening where the now closed Mike Kellys Outer Banks Tavern was, well, the competition is becoming even more intense. So what’s happeni ...read more
Getting to Know The Outer Banks: Maritime Forests
Posted on January 22, 2018 in Around the Outer Banks.
The beach, that wonderful merging of ocean and sand that seems so perfect will always be the draw bringing visitors to the Outer Banks. But there is another side to this strip of sand, another world of beauty and wonder waiting for the slightly adventurous. The soundside of the Outer Banks seems to be a world apart from the seashor ...read more
Getting to Know The Outer Banks: Jockey's Ridge State Park
Posted on January 6, 2018 in Around the Outer Banks.
With over 1,000,000 visitors annually, Jockey’s Ridge State Park in Nags Head is one of the most visited parks in the North Carolina State Park system. A relatively small park—426 acres—it’s appearance is striking with Jockey’s Ridge, a massive 74’ sand dune higher than any other natural feature on the Outer Banks. The park is home ...read more
Getting to Know The Outer Banks: The National Parks
Posted on November 18, 2017 in Around the Outer Banks.
The Outer Banks stretch over 100 miles from Carova at the Virginia/North Carolina border to Ocracoke. There is even an uninhabited island just south of Ocracoke—Portsmouth Island—that could properly be called part of the Outer Banks. There has certainly been development—the Outer Banks economy is healthy and it’s based on visitatio ...read more
Getting to Know The Outer Banks: Urgent Care, Primary Care and Specialists
Posted on September 16, 2017 in Around the Outer Banks.
There was a time on the Outer Banks when a broken wrist or birth of a baby meant a trip to Elizabeth City or Chesapeake. In March of 2002 everything changed when the Outer Banks Hospital opened in Nags Head. Outer Banks Hospital With 18 beds, the Outer Banks Hospital is a relatively small hospital, but it serves the needs of the Ou ...read more
