Your Parks, Your Impact
Help us create new experiences in your Outer Banks national parks today! Learn MoreCape Hatteras
National Seashore
Fort Raleigh
National Historic Site
Wright Brothers
National Memorial
Adopt A Pony
Support Ocracoke’s most beloved residents by symbolically adopting an Ocracoke pony today! Get your official adoption certificate and photo of your chosen pony.
Adopt A Sea Turtle Nest
Get an official adoption certificate and updates on your very own sea turtle nest! You will help fund projects and programs that protect and enhance Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Protect our Parks
Our OBX national parks protect the nature, history, and spirit of freedom you think of when you make your way here each year. Find out how you can protect them today.
Latest News
Open OutDoors for Kids Field Trips!
Each year, fourth-grade students across North Carolina learn about the state’s history, including the important stories of American Indian peoples, English exploration, the Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island and the Wright brothers’ first flight, which the Outer...
Sea Turtle Scoop 2023
Did you know that biological science technicians at Cape Hatteras National Seashore carefully track, learn from, and protect hundreds of sea turtle nests each summer? While human visitors flocked to the Seashore this summer, more than 370 sea turtles also made their...
Meet Your Ranger: Taylor Hegler
Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Hometown: This is always a loaded question as I was a military kid due to my father’s service in the United States Coast Guard, so we moved constantly. But I was born in Peoria, Illinois, and it’s where the large...
