Swansboro
This laid-back restaurant boasts a menu of classic seafood dishes with a modern spin, like a crab cake stacked on top of a filet. In the summer, guests can pick up a meal and dine dockside in swimsuits and shades with a view of the White Oak River. Read more …
99 West Church Street
(910) 326-7300
saltwatergrill.com
Memories of spuds are firmly rooted in one chef’s mind, just like the Watauga County potatoes she once unearthed.
The poignant voices of gospel music seem to rise from the soil of eastern North Carolina. The genre’s lineage is as rooted to the land as the crops growing in its fields.
In winter, when the weather is just right, water turns ethereally symphonic — if you stop to listen.
Far away from the summer buzz, Corolla quietens into a sleepy, seaside village during the winter. Here, on this strip of sand, visitors find themselves immersed in the northernmost reaches of our state’s coast, where the coldest season is a chance to celebrate solitude.
