Your Parks, Your Impact

Help us create new experiences in your Outer Banks national parks today!
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Cape 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

Project Update: Pathways to Your National Parks

Project Update: Pathways to Your National Parks

Since last October, we have been working with our National Park Service partners and our local community to create a new experience at Cape Hatteras National Seashore: the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Pathway.   Each year, millions of people visit the Seashore, and many...

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Meet Your Ranger: Alisa Hardin-Lapp

Meet Your Ranger: Alisa Hardin-Lapp

Please tell us a little bit about yourself.      Hometown: Southeast Pennsylvania (Go Eagles!)  Program of study: B.S. in Business Management, Metropolitan State University of Denver  Position in our Outer Banks national parks: Supervisory Park Ranger (Hatteras Island...

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Supporter Story: Barbara Jordan

Supporter Story: Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan enjoying her time at the beach! It’s 1952 and I’m in a house on the beach in Nags Head, North Carolina, and I’m seeing the ocean for the first time. I am 16 years old. I will try to briefly summarize my over 70 years of visiting the Outer Banks. I am...

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Outer Banks Forever is the official nonprofit partner of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial, helping to protect and enhance these special places.