A facility improvement project at Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s Frisco Beach Access is scheduled to begin Wednesday, Sept. 15. The popular beach access is located just south of Frisco, North Carolina. The $896,506 project, awarded to T.D. McGhee Co. from Wilmington, N.C., will include the following improvements at Frisco Beach Access: The existing 44-space parking [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) will host drop-in volunteer beach cleanup efforts at Coquina Beach Access and Ocracoke Beach Access from 7:30-11 a.m. Sept. 18. Volunteers should meet Seashore staff near the restroom facilities at each location. Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. All beach cleanup [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

The Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) announced several recent updates and news items related to recreational activities and seashore conditions on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. News items and events related to the National Seashore for the week of September 6 include the following: Seashore Updates Ranger-led educational programs at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) has been notified by the Ocracoke Sanitary District that water service to several Seashore facilities will be interrupted temporarily tomorrow, Sept. 1, due to a water line leak in the northern region of Ocracoke Village. Tomorrow, from 6 a.m. until late afternoon, the following Seashore facilities will not have water [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

The Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) announced several recent updates and news items related to recreational activities and seashore conditions on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. News items and events related to the National Seashore for the week of August 19 include the following: Seashore Updates Cape Hatteras National Seashore partnered with Outer Banks Forever and the Outer Banks [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

Every summer, sea turtles visit the beaches of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) to lay their nests. This year, the National Seashore has reported more than 300 nests along the local shorelines so far, with many nests already beginning to hatch. One of the ways that national park staff assist these turtles is by [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

The Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) announced several recent updates and news items related to recreational activities and seashore conditions on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. News items and events related to the National Seashore for the week of August 19 include the following: Seashore Updates With 491,061 visits during the month of July, Cape Hatteras [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

On the morning of Monday, August 16, Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) biological technicians discovered a live, two-headed loggerhead sea turtle hatchling during one of their routine sea turtle nest excavations. The excavation occurred south of Ramp 32 on Hatteras Island, in between the villages of Avon and Salvo. “Overall, genetic deformities of sea turtle [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

The Cape Hatters National Seashore’s (CHNS) weekly “Dark Skies Over Hatteras” program will coincide with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower on Thursday, per a recent update from CHNS. Known as one of the most popular meteor showers for expert and amateur astronomers alike, the summertime Perseid Meteor Shower can produce up to 60 [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

The Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) announced several recent updates and news items related to recreational activities and seashore conditions on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. News items and events related to the National Seashore for the week of August 6 include the following: Seashore Updates Yesterday morning, Cape Point reopened to off-road vehicles and pedestrians. [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

On Thursday, August 5, Cape Point reopened to off-road vehicles (ORVs) and pedestrians after a seasonal closure for bird nesting, per an update from the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Cape Point was closed to pedestrians and ORVs earlier in the season due to American oystercatcher chicks on the ground. Those chicks eventually fledged, and while [...] Seashore News |  Full Article

Visitors to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS), regardless of vaccination status, are now required to wear masks inside all park buildings, per a recent update from the Seashore. The mandate follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance regarding areas of substantial or high COVID-19 transmission, which includes Dare County, where there is [...] Seashore News |  Full Article