Outer Banks Articles & Shorts

If you’re like a lot of people – like hundreds of thousands of people – you love the Outer Banks of North Carolina. You might consider us presumptuous drawing this conclusion so quickly, and we would agree with you . . . except for the fact that we’re right. You love the Outer Banks beaches, the Outer Banks water sports, the Outer Banks towns, Outer Banks shops, the Outer Banks events and Outer Banks activities . . . everything about this place (you wouldn’t be on this site if you didn’t). We do too. And, lucky for you, we also love writing about the Outer Banks. Locals and visitors alike value our Outer Banks information.

Our local writers tell you how to negotiate dining out if you have a big crowd. We show you, step by step, how to pick a crab. We’ve written articles highlighting Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks or about charming Manteo on Roanoke Island or telling you the mysteries of Ocracoke Island. We cover the events happening on the Outer Banks – and, boy, are there a lot of them to cover! Outer Banks activities, everything from water sports to walking tours to lighthouse tours to birdwatching trips, are focal points. Businesses, rituals and legends local to the Outer Banks are detailed in our articles. You’ll find out how that restaurant got its name or the modest beginning of that now-booming business. We give you insider Outer Banks information about staying safe in the ocean, how to navigate those pesky turn lanes, which restaurants to check out for the best Southern cuisine in the area and resorts’ present and future aspirations. Our Outer Banks articles are good reading. You’ll feel like a local with all the knowledge you’re sure to collect! And we’re adding to them all the time. Click on in to learn about the Outer Banks from the locals' side!

 

The Cotton Gin: Country, Coastal & Cosmopolitan

By Hannah Lee Leidy
You know that point in any trip when you’re on the last stretch and the anticipation overwhelms you? Almost there, almost there…. For locals and visitors here, it’s that piece of highway right before the bridges – that landing strip to the arch that takes you over to your Outer Banks home. And sitting like a marker at... Read More

A Part of Something Bigger

By Beth P. Storie
Picture a blustery March morning in 1983.It’s cold and windy, but that’s no deterrent to Rufus and Roxie Pritchard, new owners of The Dunes Restaurant, because it’s their opening day. Their very first opening day as owners of a restaurant. Rufus is up at 4 a.m. to get things ready to greet guests at 5:30. The first... Read More

Quality Time, Quality Food

By Heather Frese
The Surfin’ Pig Deli in Avon operates on the core principal that families vacation at the beach to enjoy one another’s company. “If I rented a $5000 a week house with the best view in the world, I wouldn’t want to sit inside of a restaurant seven days a week,” says Surfin’ Pig manager Martin Shaffer.Martin’s business... Read More

Shop Here Once and You're Hooked!

By Beth P. Storie
Gray’s Outer Banks Lifestyle Clothing Co. has been outfitting locals and visitors since 1948 – that’s almost 70 years of bringing great style to these islands. No clothing company anywhere would be in business for that long if they weren’t doing it right. And Gray’s does it right! Savvy, regular shoppers know they’ll... Read More

Part of a Team

By Amelia Boldaji
Pizzazz Pizza is smaller than you might think. Not in size of course — with four locations in Corolla, Duck, Kitty Hawk and Nags Head they’re actually the largest pizza company on the Outer Banks — but certainly in the spirit of the close-knit family business they started almost 30 years ago.Locally family owned and... Read More