Time to hit the beach. Explore the country's best coastal hikes, from short walks to adventurous through-hikes.

AL, as she’s known to researchers, is an American oystercatcher and she recently defied odds by returning yet again, Cape Lookout National Seashore wrote in a May 21 Facebook post. The park knows this ...

Homeowners, seemingly undeterred by the challenges of the beach, fight the shifting sands of ownership in Rodanthe.

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The new lease is Dominion’s third, after it acquired a 40,000-acre lease off the North Carolina Outer Banks last month ... turbines on its first lease, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind ...

“The restaurant, along with its recently relocated windmill, has, for many years, been a unique part of many Outer Banks vacations,” Nags Head Town Manager Cliff Ogburn said in a statement.

The trail, called the Coast to ... we spotted the North Sea. With feelings of relief and triumph, I reached into my pocket and felt the stone. We hiked along steep, magnificent cliffs, which ...

The tourists first thought they had found fossils while exploring South Carolina's Edisto Island. Then they realized the ...

Just in time for summer, Dr. Beach has revealed his definitive ranking of the best beaches in the U.S., from the Hamptons to ...

The best time to visit the Outer Banks is between March and May or September and November, when lodging rates drop and crowds dissipate. Most mainland North Carolina residents and out-of-towners ...