North Carolina’s sandy shores are making national headlines again, with multiple beach towns earning spots on two recent lists of the best summer vacation destinations in the United States. A visitor ...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (WITN) - As the summer beach season finally begins, the Department of Environmental Quality is reminding people about its interactive public beach and waterfront access map. The ...

Readers can vote daily for their favorite North Carolina beach until May 19. Winners will be announced on May 28. The beaches were nominated by a panel of experts. Nine Wilmington-area beaches are in ...

If you’re craving a trip to the coast, you may want to venture out to a few North Carolina destinations voted as top travel spots across the region. As part of its annual South’s Best awards, Southern ...

Stay at the Atlantis, a vintage 1960s lodge in Pine Knoll Shores with ocean-view rooms and complimentary beach chairs. See the wild horses on Cape Lookout National Seashore. Rent a kayak or ...

On any given day during summer months, North Carolina’s coastal waters could be filled with sharks looking for their next meal. Most sharks aren’t anything to worry about (and don’t want to make you ...

The Wilmington, NC area offers 11 beaches with a variety of activities. Suggested activities include visiting piers, lighthouses, museums, and parks. Water activities such as sailing, kayaking, and ...

Recent storms caused significant beach erosion along the North Carolina coast, even without a direct hurricane landfall. Experts suggest that current coastal development and protection strategies are ...

Sunbathers aren’t the only ones lying belly-up on North Carolina beaches as Memorial Day kicks off the 2025 summer travel season. That beautiful indigo-tinted squish monster, the poisonous Portuguese ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Outer Banks ranked No. 14 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 summer list. USA TODAY named Atlantic Beach the top North Carolina beach ...

On Topsail Island, chunks of sand that had been pumped onto the beaches in Surf City and Topsail Beach in the past year have washed away. In Wrightsville Beach, the pounding waves from the slow-moving ...