North Carolina’s Brunswick Islands – Return To Your Senses.
Return to your senses. Return to the true essence of the family beach vacation in North Carolina’s Brunswick Islands. Six barrier island beaches – Sunset Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, Holden Beach, Oak Island, Caswell Beach and Bald Head Island – provide 45 miles of wide, stunning beaches. Picturesque Southern towns like Southport, Calabash, Shallotte and Leland draw visitors with family-owned, one-of-a-kind restaurants, galleries and shops, and even movie locations. Adding a temperate climate ideal for year-round outdoor activities, dining, and festivals along with museums, historic forts and lighthouses, the stage is set for a perfect coastal getaway. Toss in boating, kayaking, fishing and golfing and there’s always plenty to do – or you may choose to do nothing at all but enjoy the quiet, the beaches and nature.
The wide, uncrowded beaches of North Carolina’s Brunswick Islands are a haven far away from high-rise hotels and overdevelopment. Private vacation rental homes give your family all the space you need. Or choose from a quiet B&B or cozy inn. Here there are beaches for families, reunions, small children, surfers, nature adventures, girlfriends and golf getaways. You can still find deer roaming the dunes, and the old-time fishing piers and public access points so rare these days. And a special treat, our south-facing beaches provide both spectacular sunrises and sunsets over the ocean several months of the year.
Families that visit North Carolina’s Brunswick Islands fall so in love that they return year after year, generation after generation. Discover why so many people call our beaches, “My beach.”
