We’ve traveled the state from mountains to sea to find some of the best open-sky camping spots North Carolina has to offer. The list isn’t comprehensive — we’d like you to add your favorite to our list — but it’s a start. Click here to find a place where you can set up camp, lie back, and count the stars to your heart’s content.
At the height of summer, when the weeknights and weekends blur into one sticky mess, with post-baseball game bliss and it’s-still-light-out-till-practically-10 p.m.-mania, not much else satisfies like the magic of a cold, creamy slurp of snowball. Read more about why we love this Eastern North Carolina institution.
At Carolina Beach, the old Center Pier — better known as Tiki Pier — bounces. The pier also shakes sometimes. It has for years. But there’s no need to be alarmed — the bouncing usually only happens on Thursday evenings, and the culprit of the quivering and shivering has been identified: surf bands. There’s no better backdrop for beach music than the ocean or a better stage than the Tiki Pier at Carolina Beach.
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If you’re not able to make the full journey on the Appalachian Trail, or if you’re looking for an exciting day or weekend hiking trip through the mountains, here are five of our favorite Appalachian Trail section hikes in North Carolina.
Nothing quite works up an appetite like a day spent at the beach. Satisfy your hunger with some of the juiciest, tastiest burgers our coast has to offer. Find the 10 beach burger we think you should try this summer.
From its northernmost point in Corolla to its southern terminus on Cedar Island, this scenic byway — bound between sound and sea — links the islands and communities of the Outer Banks.
For the owner of The Country Biscuit, welcoming diners is the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. And diners’ dreams come true when they try the glazed biscuit doughnut holes.
Black bears are the embodiment of North Carolina’s adventurous spirit, immense and wild.
After nearly a century — or just a couple of years — these seafood restaurants have become coastal icons, the places we know, love, and return to again and again.
