Travel & Vacation Guide, North Carolina

By Adrien White

North Carolina is an evolving state with booming cities, yet retains its rustic charm. In this article, we highlight motorhome lodgings in North Carolina you can use as a base camp for your trip.

North Carolina is a southern state with a variety of different atmospheres. The coastal region, with its beautiful beaches and warm sun, is a popular vacation spot for families and those who enjoy the ocean. Further inland, there are mountains to please any naturalist – from the Great Smoky Mountain range to the Blue Ridge mountains; there is a spot for any hiker to enjoy. For those who are more into a collegiate atmosphere, the “Triangle” region of Durham and Chapel Hill is home to many universities. Finally, historians always enjoy a trip to Kitty Hawk – home of the Wright Brothers’ first flight. One thing is true in all of these spots – the motorhome lodgings in North Carolina are a great place to stay to experience these settings.

Located in the beautiful beach region of the Outer Banks, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina draws visitors from all over the United States. This area is a great place to experience the beach atmosphere along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as a good place for historians to see what the Wright Brothers saw. Once a tiny village, Kitty Hawk has become one of the biggest villages on the Outer Banks – due to the historical meaning of the spot as well as the ideal beach surroundings. You can walk through the village and enjoy the fishing atmosphere, as well as the quaint beach houses and shops. Four miles away, you can see the actual site of the 1903 flight, in what is now known as Kill Devil Hills.

About an hour away from Kitty Hawk, NC is the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. While finding an motorhome park in the Kitty Hawk region is quite difficult, there are many motorhome lodgings in North Carolina that are nearby, especially in the Hatteras region. One of these lodgings is the Camp Hatteras, located in Rodanthe, NC. This lodging offers many different types of accommodations, from full hookups for your motorhome to “primitive” tent sites with no services. The camp is open year round, making it an ideal spot for a trip any time of year.

Other amenities at Camp Hatteras include concrete pads and full hookups with cable TV and wireless Internet, and three swimming pools and a Jacuzzi. Additionally, there is a laundry and shower facilities, a clubhouse and conference center, 1000 ft frontage on the Atlantic Ocean and even three stocked fishing ponds. Miniature golf and tennis are also located on site, along with a playground for children and other sporting facilities. You can easily spend a lot of time on site at this motorhome lodging and thoroughly amuse your family!

There are many different motorhome lodgings in North Carolina – with the amenities and seasonal availability varying depending on the part of the state the park is located in. Those along the shore are extremely family friendly, and are a great place for your next family vacation.

By Sunil Tanna

The United States is blessed with many wonderful public golf courses, including several in the state of North Carolina. In this article, we will review some of the best public golf courses in the North Carolina, and what they offer.

1. Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Course in Southern Pines, was laid out by the Scottish born golf architect, Donald Ross. The course, which has always been lovingly maintained, has in recent years been restored back towards the original Donald Ross design, while the greens’ foundations have nevertheless been rebuilt to USGA specifications.

2., 3. and 4. Pinehurt Resort and Country Club in the village of Pinehurst is home to no less than 8 different golf courses as well as the Pinehurst Golf Academy. The most highly rated are No. 2, No. 4 and No. 8. The No. 2 course was designed by Donald Ross in 1907. The No. 4 and No. 8 courses are both designs by Tom Fazio (2000 and 1996 respectively), although the No. 4 course owes a great debt to an earlier Ross course on the same site. The No. 2 is especially known as a challenging course, not because of any individual feature, but because of the combination of features that it offers, and hence is a popular site for golf championships, more in fact than any other course in the country, including having hosted the 2005 U.S. Open Championship.

5. Rivers Edge Golf Course is an Arnold Palmer Signature Course in Shallotte. The course is home to spectacular landscapes, and six of the holes sit upon bluffs which overlook the Shallotte River and surrounding marshlands.

6. Ocean Ridge Plantation in Sunset Beach is home to four courses: “Lion’s Paw”, “Panther’s Run”, “Tiger’s Eye”, and new in 2007, “Leopard’s Chase”. While all the courses have something special to offer, perhaps the best known and most highly regarded is the “Tiger’s Eye” which has been rated as one of the best public golf courses in the country by Golf Digest.

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