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Corolla Wild Horse Tours

Corolla Wild Horse Tours knowledgeable guides will ensure you and your family have a great wild horse tour! Along the way the guides will stop and point out interesting sites and local history and details of the Corolla Wild Horses history. Be sure...

Atlantic Paradise

Need your own piece of paradise? Your search is over with this picture-perfect Southern Shores home located across the street from the calming waters of the Atlantic Ocean. So close to the ocean you can smell the salty air and hear the waves...

  • Southern Shores
  • 7 Bedrooms
  • 7 Bathrooms
Big Buck's Homemade Ice Cream

Serving our customers on the Outer Banks since 1994, Big Buck's ice Cream is dedicated serving you “The Best.” We offer a full line of super-premium ice cream products, smoothies, chocolates, and custom-made ice cream cakes! 2 locations...

A Latitude Attitude

This is a Blue Standard Bedding Property. Learn more about our hospitality bedding program here.Have a welcome retreat from the pressures and stress, and give yourself ‘A Latitude Attitude’! This beach retreat allows everyone to enjoy the...

  • Kill Devil Hills
  • 4 Bedrooms
  • 3 Bathrooms
  • Sleeps 11
The Cotton Gin

For those traveling to the Outer Banks, The Cotton Gin is a beloved landmark with its large windmill and picturesque gardens. The Cotton Gin has stood in the same location since 1929, starting as a working cotton gin and growing to a gift store with...

VILLA AMARILLA

Six bedrooms, each with a private bath of its own, give everyone in your group room to unwind at Villa Amarilla, a Carolina Designs oceanfront home in Kill Devil Hills. Next door stands Cay Mar, and the two houses can be rented together for...

  • Kill Devil Hills
  • 6 Bedrooms
  • 7.5 Bathrooms
Southern Shores Realty

Southern Shores Realty offers over 350 Outer Banks rentals from Corolla to S. Nags Head.  We've been an Outer Banks tradition since 1947, providing families just like yours with memories that last a lifetime.  Take a moment to search...

It's All Good

SOUNDSIDE Salvo – Wind Over Waves – Everything is more than alright when you discover IT’S ALL GOOD, a six-bedroom/five-full- and two-half-bath home located in an modren community of gracious homes that share a 100-foot pier and boat ramp on...

  • Salvo
  • 6 Bedrooms
  • 6 Bathrooms
Outer Banks Blue

Since 2005, Outer Banks Blue has delivered exceptional vacations for OBX visitors. Our family-owned and locally managed rental company focuses on service and promises “a relaxing experience with a local touch.” Turn your dream vacation...

Luckie Tides 235

Aptly named Luckie Tides, guests can listen to the sound of the waves crashing and enjoy incredible ocean views just steps from the sand at this charming 3 bedroom oceanfront cottage at Milepost 4 in Kitty Hawk. Enjoy modern touches throughout this...

  • Kitty Hawk
  • 3 Bedrooms
  • 1.5 Bathrooms
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...

SEASIDE CORNER

Ocean views open off the top-floor deck at Seaside Corner, a six-bedroom Carolina Designs home in Corolla's Ocean Sands, Section O, where an elevator carries luggage to every level. Just 137 yards from beach access, this OBX vacation rental...

  • Corolla
  • 6 Bedrooms
  • 6 Bathrooms
Lost Treasure Golf

The noted explorer, archaeologist, anthropologist, paleontologist, and part-time plumbing contractor from the University of Chicago, Professor Duffer A. Hacker, led two expeditions to the outer banks in the late 1920’s. The purpose of these...

WBE Whalebone Oceanside 4 Bedroom Cottag...

Welcome to Whalebone Oceanside Cottage E by KEES Vacations! A classic Outer Banks experience with a fresh new chapter. Nestled in South Nags Head at Milepost 16.5, Whalebone Ocean Cottages brings the charm of a historic cottage court into the modern...

  • Nags Head
  • 4 Bedrooms
  • 4 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...

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...

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...

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...

Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head offers fishing and fun for the entire family! Go fishing, take a family fishing class or simply walk out to the end of this 1,000-foot-long, concrete ocean pier.