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TRiO Restaurant & Market

Wine, beer and cheese lovers will love TRiO, an exciting retail and tasting destination in Kitty Hawk. Both a gourmet retail wine, beer and cheese shop as well as a bistro with a wine bar and tap house, TRiO offers the best of the worlds of...

5371 - Masion Azur

Always Included, complimentary linens and made beds! Nestled in the heart of Kill Devil Hills, Maison Azur offers a serene coastal escape that perfectly balances convenience with classic Outer Banks...

  • Kill Devil Hills
  • 3 Bedrooms
  • 3.5 Bathrooms
Fish Heads Bar and Grill

Rustic waterfront pub at a fishing pier with a large deck for seafood eats, draft beer & live music. Fish Heads Bar and Grill is THE tiki bar of the Outer Banks. Located at Mile Post 18.5 in Nags Head, we offer a view that is second to none...

2971 - Seabbatical

Always Included, complimentary linens and made beds! Take A Seabbatical in Duck for your next Outer Banks vacation! Located on the oceanfront in the Colony by the Sea Condo community, Seabbatical is...

  • Duck
  • 2 Bedrooms
  • 2 Bathrooms
Surf or Sound Realty

Surf or Sound Realty invites you to explore our collection of over 600 premier vacation rental homes on Hatteras Island, featuring the largest selection of oceanfront accommodations. Nestled within the breathtaking Cape Hatteras National Seashore...

18S-B | Eighteen South B- South Ocean Br...

This Outstanding Oceanside Townhouse offers Great Ocean Views and is just steps to the Beach; Closer than most Oceanfront homes w/No Roads to Cross. Located in the Eighteen South Townhouse Complex this unit is spacious, well appointed, and nicely...

  • Nags Head
  • 4 Bedrooms
  • 3 Bathrooms
  • Sleeps 10
The Christmas Shop

Discover gifts, garlands and glittering lights galore. Looking for a trinket for someone who has everything? Choose ornaments for every hobby, occupation, occasion or enthusiast; from the fisherman or Disney lover; dancer or photographer. Throughout...

Lost N' Sound

2026 includes a Renovated Bathroom! Located in Corolla / 6 Bedrooms / 5 Full Bathrooms / 1 Half BathroomThis calming soundfront home provides a regal setting in which to reflect on the experiences of the day as you watch the sun setting over the...

  • Corolla
  • 6 Bedrooms
  • 5 Bathrooms
American Pie

Discover the best homemade ice cream and authentic made-from-scratch New York Style pizza the Outer Banks has to offer at American Pie in Kill Devil Hills. An Outer Banks favorite for lunch, dinner or a delicious scoop of scrumptious ice cream after...

Water's View

OCEANVIEW Rodanthe — Seashore Drive — Unwind to the sound of the surf crashing on the sand in this elegant home that sits only two tons from the beach. The view is unbeatable from the multiple levels of decks that wrap around this ideal...

  • Rodanthe
  • 4 Bedrooms
  • 4 Bathrooms
Old Man Charters

  Experience the Outer Banks from the water with Old Man Charters, a personalized boat tour company based in the historic fishing village of Wanchese. Departing from a private dock on the southern end of Roanoke Island, Old Man Charters...

BLUE BEACON RETREAT

Claim one of eight king suites, each with a private bath, at Blue Beacon Retreat, a Carolina Designs oceanfront home in Corolla where all 10 bedrooms have private baths: 10 full and 2 half in total. An elevator links three levels of upscale...

  • Corolla
  • 10 Bedrooms
  • 11 Bathrooms
OBX Ghost Tours

OBX Ghost tours is something your family will be talking about the rest of the summer! You'll be entertained as a guide leads you through down town Manteo by lantern telling the spooky stories that makes The Outer Banks one of the most haunted...

COSTA AZUL

COSTA AZUL offers families a rare measure of ease at the water's edge. This eight-bedroom oceanfront Nags Head home from Carolina Designs pairs six king beds with a 29-foot private pool, a hot tub, and a rec room built for rainy-day...

  • Nags Head
  • 8 Bedrooms
  • 5.5 Bathrooms
Nags Head Dolphin Watch

Scientists run these dolphin tours as part of their research on these beloved aquatic animals, so you know this will be an interesting trip. Passengers will be able to see how researchers with the Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research, a nonprofit organization,  conduct their research and hear about some of the discoveries from more than a decade of studies and monitoring. Some of the hundreds of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins in the area show up so frequently they’ve even been given...

Jockey's Ridge State Park

Jockey's Ridge State Park is an unmistakable landmark for Nags Head vacationers and virtually everyone passing through along the main beach bypass, US 158. This park is marked by its towering sand dunes, which reach 80' - 100' feet tall and look...

Bodie Island Lighthouse

The Bodie Island Lighthouse, (pronounced "Body") is located just south of the town of Nags Head and Whalebone Junction, where Highway 158, Highway 64, and NC Highway 12 intersect. Visitors travelling towards Hatteras Island can't help but notice the...

Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Visitors to Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands will simultaneously be visiting the gorgeous Cape Hatteras National Seashore. One of the largest preserved parcels of the Outer Banks, the National Seashore stretches across 70 miles of shoreline...

Ocean bottom or Gulf Stream fishing on the Carolina-style charter boat is the only boat licensed and built to take up to 27 passengers per Gulf Stream Charter. Fish for tuna, mahi-mahi, wahoo, king mackerel, blue marlin, white marlin or sailfish...