People are traveling just up the road, making day-long trips, and taking vacations to visit North Carolina’s lighthouses. Whaleshead Light in Currituck is on the April 1966 cover, and Carteret County’s Cape Lookout is featured in April 1967. Bill Sharpe writes, “Millions of people who have never even heard of Cape Lookout Lighthouse will be visiting it in the years to come.”
North Carolina is known for many things, but nothing more important this week than the qualities of endurance, resilience, and hope.
By day, this adventure park in the Triad is a fall festival to die for. By night, the undead come alive for Halloween tricks. Welcome to one man’s vision of year-round merrymaking.
North Carolina’s border dances across the mountains as it traces four different states. Life here can be more remote, but good neighbors are never far away.
The Blue Ridge Parkway stands out among America’s national parks: Unfurling across six Appalachian mountain chains, it connects dozens of rural communities and binds together generations of families through shared memories.
