The National Parks Service takes over the Linville Falls area, and Chester Davis describes the falls and trail built with a new vantage point: “You can look down into this wild place from a dozen vantage points above. But when it is seen from above, the immediacy of its wildness is lost. In the gorge, at the foot of the falls where the roar of the falling water is loud, all the wildness is there and you are a part of it.”
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.
