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Luxury Travel in Outer Banks — Trip Planner
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What things cost in Outer Banks
Wright Brothers is ten dollars per adult, card only. Climbing Bodie Island Lighthouse costs ten for adults and five for seniors and children eleven and under, sold same-day from seven in the morning, with a 260-pound and 42-inch limit. Jockey's Ridge and the Hatteras ferry are free. The weekly house rental is the entire budget; everything else is small.
Outer Banks after dark
There is deliberately almost none. These are rental-house islands, so the evening is a deck, a cooler and a sunset over the sound rather than a bar strip. Kill Devil Hills holds what concentration exists, including a wind-powered brewpub and a few Beach Road bars. South of Nags Head the villages go dark by ten, and Ocracoke earlier still.
What to eat in Outer Banks
Hatteras-style clam chowder is the dish that exists nowhere else: clear salty broth, no cream and no tomato, thickened only by potato. Soft-shell crabs run in spring. Duck Donuts began in the village of Duck in 2007 and fries to order. Sam and Omie's in Nags Head has fed the Oregon Inlet charter crews since 1937 and opens for breakfast.
Outer Banks with kids, realistically
Jockey's Ridge is a hundred-foot sandpile children are allowed to run down, and the sand-flat kite conditions are dependable. Wild-horse tours north of Corolla need a four-wheel-drive vehicle, and the North Carolina Aquarium sits on Roanoke Island. Choose the sound side at Duck or Kitty Hawk for toddlers: the ocean here has strong rip currents and few lifeguarded stretches below Nags Head.
When the weather turns in Outer Banks
Nor'easters here last days, not hours. The indoor circuit is the free Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras, the North Carolina Aquarium and Roanoke Island Festival Park with its Elizabeth II ship, the Wright Brothers exhibit hall, and the Scarborough Faire shops in Duck. Storms overwash NC-12, so check road status before driving south.