Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge is an 8,219 acre parcel located on Knotts Island. The refuge is a popular spot for bird watching, bicycling, photography, fishing, and kayaking. Home to many endangered and threatened species, including peregrine falcons and American bald eagles, Mackay Island is also an important wintering area for thousands of ducks, geese, and swan. Visitors can often view wading birds, shorebirds, and raptors, as well as a variety of reptiles and amphibians, within the refuge. There is one auto tour route and two hiking and bicycling trails that provide access to the refuge, as well as 20 miles of canals that wind through the swamp-like habitat.
From mainland Currituck, visitors can reach Knotts Island and Mackay Island via a 45-minute ferry ride across the Currituck Sound. For a more indirect route, automobiles can travel through a section of southeastern Virginia and wind their way to the islands via land.
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Furnishings for your cottage or castle can be viewed online or in store in two bright and beautiful showrooms. We provide furniture for categories including: Baby, Rugs, Bedding, Tabletop, Furniture, Gifts, Window Treatments, and Artwork (Indoor and Outdoor).
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Monday – Saturday: 10:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.
Sunday: 12:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Take a cool break from the hot beach and grab some soft-serve ice cream, served in cones, shakes, sundaes, in a variety of creative concoctions. Hot dogs and other quick foods, plus delicious ice cream cakes. DQ also offers a Sweet Deals Menu, where the customer can choose any two for $3, three for $4, and so on.
Visit Historic Corolla Village, a popular attraction for visitors to Currituck’s Outer Banks. Stroll down sandy streets lined with wooden signs for restored shops hosted by friendly merchants and visit a simpler time. Tour the historic Whalehead mansion while you’re in town, and snap a photo of the view from the top of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse.
The village is home to many unique businesses, including the Wild Horse Museum. Although most of the isolated villages that existed on this stretch of coast in the past have disappeared, the Historic Corolla Village remains intact, providing insight into times long past.
The focus of the Village has been on the restoration and re-purposing of the existing historic homes into retail shops and office spaces. Visitors can walk the paths and visit the carefully restored homes: The Parker House, Parker Outbuilding, Gray-Lewark House, Gray-Lewark Outbuilding, The Gard House, and A Village Garden.
Twiddy & Company has been instrumental in efforts to restore the many buildings in the Village and is housed in the historic Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station, which they have relocated to the Village. They have also restored the Wash Woods US Coast Guard Station #166, which is situated on the four-wheel-drive beaches of Corolla.
With it’s unpaved roads and historic setting, staying in Corolla Village in Corolla, NC provides a unique way to experience the beauty, history, and scenery that the secluded northern Outer Banks beaches have to offer. Located near the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, the Whalehead mansion, Currituck Maritime Museum and Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education, Corolla Village is home to restored residences that are now home to numerous quaint shops, stores, and museums.
Visitors enjoy strolling through Corolla Village because it’s like taking a trip back in times to when life was much simpler…with it’s unpaved sand roads, live oaks, scrub pines, and relaxing pace. From Corolla Village, it’s only a short walk or bike ride to the ocean and several of the most popular things to do in Corolla, NC. It’s difficult to image that this area was home to only two-hundred people at the turn of the century, and most of the residents were families of those working at the Currituck Beach Lifesaving Station.
Take a step back in time, visit Historic Corolla Village.
When you really want to get away from it all and get back to nature, you go camping. On Knotts Island, NC, the Sandy Point Resort Campground offers visitors a quiet setting with primitive and full hook-up sites on the water in a great location. Sandy Point is close to the Knotts Island Ferry, so you can easily access mainland Currituck or stay onsite and take advantage of outdoor recreation and fun.
Sandy Point Resort is located on Knotts Island, North Carolina with a view of the Currituck Sound. We are open year around with 150 available camping sites – 80 full hookup sites, 30 water and electric sites and 40 primitive sites.
If you enjoy fishing and crabbing, sailing, and water skiing, Sandy Point makes for a great vacation base while you have fun. The campground welcomes campers with tents and RVs, and even has a few cabins available for rental. If you have a boat, you can launch from the campground and enjoy the day on the water. For food and other provisions, the Knotts Island Market is close by and offers everything you need for campfire cooking.
Rates vary according to the time of year and the type of campsite you reserve. Discounts are available for active duty military, and rates are lower in the off-season. Kids have access to a playground and basketball and volleyball courts, and you can also fish right off the docks! You’re also just five minutes from Mackay Wildlife Refuge if you’re interested in day hiking.
We are a quiet family oriented campground with a boat ramp for your use, sandy beach and fishing access, basketball and volleyball courts, convenience store, water skiing and wind surfing. We are close to the a wildlife refuge and 30 minutes to the Virginia Beach, Virginia oceanfront.
Sandy Point Resort Campground is located at 176 Sandy Point Drive in Knotts Island. It’s less than an hour from mainland Currituck via ferry and a short drive to Virginia Beach.
Welcome to OBX Bait and Tackle, located on the beautiful Outer Banks of North Carolina. Corolla’s largest and most fully equipped tackle shop, specializing in surf and freshwater fishing. OBX can outfit the novice to the pro. Live, fresh and frozen baits are plentiful as is the friendly helpful service. There’s something for everyone at OBX. Of course, OBX has all the fishing supplies you could need, but they also have a full selection of sportswear for the entire family. They carry a full line of Columbia clothing, Aftco sportswear, dresses for women and children’s clothing. You’ll love their T-shirts with lots of great fishing designs. They also have plenty of fun gifts and fishy home decor items. See Recreation for more fishing information.
The Outer Banks, known for its vast bodies of water and excellent fishing, offers a variety of angling experiences. Such experiences include freshwater fly-fishing for bass, saltwater surf fishing for speckled trout and giant red drum, inshore live baiting cobia, as well as trolling for blue marlin offshore. The Outer Banks is a true angler’s paradise!
