Beaches & Nature

String the Outer Banks together on a map and you find a chain of beacons that have guided ships past the “Graveyard of the Atlantic”

North Carolina’s coastline runs more than 300 miles from the wild, four-wheel-drive sands of Corolla to the laid-back barrier islands near the South Carolina line,

Just across the Intracoastal Waterway from Mount Pleasant and a short drive from downtown Charleston, two barrier islands sit side by side, separated only by

South Carolina is famous for its big, buzzy beach scenes, from the boardwalk energy of Myrtle Beach to the surf shacks of Folly. But the

Tucked between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic just east of Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach is North Carolina’s quintessential surf town: four miles of clean, soft

Locals call it “the Edge of America,” and once you cross the bridge onto this barrier island just southwest of downtown Charleston, the nickname makes

The Carolinas hide some of the East Coast’s finest shelling, from the wild barrier islands of North Carolina’s Outer Banks to the quiet, current-fed strands

Charleston’s reputation rests on its cobblestone streets and antebellum mansions, but the city’s greatest summer asset sits just beyond the peninsula: a string of barrier

The Outer Banks of North Carolina is a ribbon of barrier islands stretching more than 100 miles down the coast, where the Atlantic rolls in

The Carolina coast sits squarely on the Atlantic Flyway, the great migratory highway that funnels millions of birds along the eastern seaboard each spring and