The 10 Most Beautiful Places In The Outer Banks

Jockey’s Ridge State Park: A half-century on the Outer Banks sand

Jockey’s Ridge State Park is turning the big five-oh in 2025. A natural wonder on the Outer Banks, the rolling sand dunes in Nags Head are the most-visited park in North Carolina, with more than 1 million visitors leaving footprints every year. A visitor flies a kite backed by the setting sun at Jockey’s Ridge State Park on March 15. (Kendall Warner / The Virginian-Pilot) During the pandemic of 2020 and 2021, the number almost doubled when peopl…

The 10 Most Beautiful Places In The Outer Banks

Peter Frank EdwardsPeople tend to speak about the Outer Banks, often referred to simply as OBX, as if it’s one singular place. In reality, the beloved destination is a string of barrier islands that stretches for more than 175 miles (roughly the distance from Nashville to Louisville) along the coast of North Carolina, encompassing four counties and more than a dozen towns with charmingly odd names like Duck, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, and Nag…