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Outer Banks North Carolina Vacation Travel |
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The Making of Mayberry on the Outer Banks
The New York Times (free registration required), May 11, 2007
"Manteo has attracted second-home owners and retirees by recasting itself from a dying fishing village into a slice of small-town America, a place that its most famous resident, Andy Griffith, says is more like Mayberry than anywhere else. But with the success, it has had to wrestle with issues of gentrification, affordable housing and zoning while facing a wave of building and rising real estate prices..."
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Golfing bonanza on the Outer Banks
MSNBC.com, July 9, 2007
"The Outer Banks are the Hamptons of the near-south, not too far from the growing Tidewater area of Virginia (Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News) but still a world away when you consider the breezy beach vibe, the monstrous mansions popping up all over the sand and the parasailing, fishing, diving, hang-gliding and many other attractions mere minutes away from any time share. Of course, I wasn't there for any "extreme" sports, but I had to check out the sextet of golf courses, all within an hour's drive - on a good day - of each other and all with their own personalities, settings and challenges that make them unique..."
A Weekend in the Outer Banks
Go World Travel, May, 2005
"Your best bet for accommodations is perhaps one of the many vacation homes or rental condos available. There are plenty of private cottages for rent on the beach where you can watch the sun sink into the ocean right from your wooden deck..."
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36 Hours: Duck, N.C.
New York Times (free registration required), July 1, 2005
"The Outer Banks, those long, skinny barrier islands just off North Carolina, have long fired the imagination - beginning with Sir Walter Raleigh's famed lost colony and fueled by the islands' delicate, ever-shifting relationship with the Atlantic. It's fitting, then, that Duck, perhaps the frailest stretch of the Banks, should become the hub of so much activity after the state opened Route 12 north of town in the 1980's. Until then, Duck had been just another sleepy fishing village - charming, sure, but more or less the end of the road. Today, Duck retains its small-town appeal, but it also offers visitors some of the best restaurants in the area, boutique shopping, a colorful local history and, as ever, mile after mile of pristine sandy beach..."
For additional travel information, contact:
Outer Banks Visitors Bureau
One Visitors Center Circle, Manteo, NC 27954
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