Outer Banks

Outer Banks Lighthouses

Currituck
Bodie Island

North of Corolla is Currituck Lighthouse on Currituck Sound, left. Farther south, just north of
Oregon Inlet is Bodie Island Lighthouse, right, on Pamlico Sound.

Hatteras
Ocracoke

Farther south are Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the tallest on the east coast, which was moved in 1999
from its original site, where it was just a matter of time until it fell into the Atlantic. To reach the
next of the Outer Banks lighthouses, you have to take a ferry, below left, to Ocracoke Island. The
shimmering white lighthouse is the oldest in the country, built in 1823 and a mere 75 feet tall.
Last year the little lighthouse was opened to the public. You cannot climb it, but I was able to
photograph the stair, below right.

The newest "lighthouse" in the Outer Banks is the Roanoke Marshes Light, an exterior reconstruction of the square cottage-style screw-pile lighthouse which stood at the southern entrance to Croatan Sound, near Wanchese. It was decommissioned in 1955, and lost in the Sound during an attempt to move it to private property. The new lighthouse is an active aid to navigation, guiding boats into Shallowbag Bay. Dedicated in September, 2004. the lighthouse is on the Manteo waterfront, on the east side of Roanoke Island.
Its twin, below, may be found in nearby Plymouth, N.C., the Roanoke River Lighthouse, reconstructed in 2003.