Yes, there are alligators in the Outer Banks. Alligators are shy, so it’s not likely that you’ll see one in your rental neighborhood.

​WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY)–The Netflix Original series ‘Outer Banks’ premiered on Wednesday. The creator and writer of the show Jonas Pate resides in Wilmington. Now, two and half years later the Raeford, NC native is living in the Cape Fear.

The Outer Banks is a series of barrier islands that jut out off the coast of North Carolina. From north to south: Northern Beaches, Roanoke Island & Dare Mainland and Hatteras.

Wrightsville Beach is the closest beach to Wilmington, and also the most developed. Ten miles outside Wilmington along route 74, the town of Wrightsville Beach organizes several notable annual events, including a marathon, biathlon and celebrity golf tournament.

North Carolina’s Outer Banks are a string of barrier islands that begin at the Virginia border and go south for 120 miles to Ocracoke Island. Tourism is the number one industry of the Outer Banks with more than 5 million visitors each year.

Which Outer Banks Town is Best for You?

• Corolla. From off-road beaches with wild horse tours to a few shops and restaurants scattered over 15 miles, Corolla is the perfect location if you like a mixture of seclusion with a few things to do within a short drive.
• Duck.
• Southern Shores.
• Kitty Hawk.
• Kill Devil Hills.
• Nags Head.

The Best Places to Live in the Outer Banks

• Corolla. The most northern town in the Outer Banks, Corolla is home to miles of beautiful beaches, wild horses, fabulous restaurants, a plethora of outdoor activities, and great golfing.
• Duck.
• Southern Shores.
• Kitty Hawk.
• Kill Devil Hills.
• Nags Head.
• Manteo.
• Rodanthe.

Basically, if you want to go sit on a beach and do nothing, go to the Outer Banks. But if you want to sit on a beach and do nothing and then have a shower and go do everything, Myrtle Beach is your best bet.

The best time to visit the Outer Banks is between March and May or September and November, when lodging rates drop and crowds dissipate.

The hurricane season for the Outer Banks runs from June 1st through November 30th. These dates are just generalities though, there have been hurricanes that have formed in the Atlantic Ocean during the months of May and December.

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Along the Outer Banks — where tourist-friendly beaches are shrinking by more than 14 feet a year in some places, according to the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management — other towns have imposed tax increases similar to the one Avon is considering. The Outer Banks have a rich past.

Except that it forecast only 30 years into the future—when sea level around the Outer Banks is projected to have risen just 12 inches and before the effects of climate change, which are cumulative and exponential, begin to accelerate intensely.

Beach nourishment isn’t a long-term solution, says Orbach, the marine policy specialist, because there isn’t enough sand to go around for all of the communities on the Atlantic Coast that will want it in the next 50 years.

The best travel days are Friday and Sunday if you are planning to spend a week at the Outer Banks. Saturday is the biggest check-in and check-out date making traffic extremely heavy at times. If you travel on a Saturday, try to cross the Wright Memorial Bridge before 11:00 a.m. to avoid the backup.

The Name. The most popular seems to be that the town was named after popular rum that with enough potency to “kill the devil,” (or “Kill Devil Rum”) according to OuterBanks.com.

For the most part the beaches are about as crowded as in Corolla with the exception of in front of hotels. They can be a bit more crowded. There are loads of comparable homes in Nags Head as Corolla.

A beach driving permit is required for driving on all Outer Banks beaches, except the northern 4WD beaches of Carova. Permits are available from the National Park Service for driving in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, or from the respective towns, (like Nags Head or Kill Devil Hills), in the central Outer Banks.

The Outer Banks is home to hundreds of miles of free and open unspoiled public beach. There’s no boardwalk on the beach, only a landscape peppered by homes. You can get on and beach at designated accesses and walk anywhere you want all for free. Our beaches are great place to find shells, sea glass and more.

One of the ways sand can harm your car is by working its way into the brake pads. It can do some major damage to your belts by getting into the pulley system, and even clog filters, restricting air flow in your car. In many cars, it can affect the sensors and give drivers false readings.

While the beach is great for the mind and body, it’s not good for your car. Not properly cleaning your car after a beach trip can put it at risk of rust. While the exterior only requires a good wash, the interior a vacuum and a wipe – the underbody is a different story.

An all-terrain tire in the sand does adequately as long as you’re airing down to increase flotation, but in side-to-side testing of identically sized tires on identically sized wheels installed on the same vehicle, we’ve found the more aggressive tires—as long as pressures are lowered as much as possible without bead …

All other things constant, a wide tyre will have a similar contact patch to a narrow tyre and, at the right pressure, both will perform well in sand. A wider tyre will need to flex less to achieve the same footprint of a narrower tyre. So a wide tyre may not offer any benefit.

then low but sand can a matter of wheel speed as well and low range can be be to low. Tell that to every vehicle on the Pismo dunes. If you could only run on sand with bald tires they would all be sunk in the sand. Pretty sure bald tires are not a requirement for soft sand.

Sand is very abrasive – you know, like sandpaper. And generally, offroad surfaces are at least as abrasive as pavement to tires. A good fresh snowfall can help to ease that, as long as it doesn’t cause wheelspin.

When driving through mud, snow and sand a narrow tire presents less surface area to the medium. A narrow tire will cut easier through mud, snow and sand than a wide one (due to resistance). The best example of this is when turning in sand.

Improved Cornering The same aspect of having a wider contact area with the road with the above, wider tires offer better cornering and road handling. It is also because wider tires have a better thread and stiffer sidewalls that they have less vehicle roll in corners.