Alt Text Map of Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina. A string of islands, parks, and refuges enclose a series of sounds, which in turn curve around Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is shaded with blue diamonds on tan. Parks are shown in green, and water is represented in blue. Extended Description The seashore curves from the top center of the map south and east, curving like a parenthesis before angling sharply west in the bottom right quadrant of the map. US Route 158 crosses the Currituck Sound at the northernmost edge of the map and then passes the towns of Southern Shores, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, and Nags Head along the shoreline. Shaded in green, Wright Brothers National Memorial and First Flight airstrip is near Kill Devil Hills. The next segment of the shoreline is Bodie Island, shaded green and accessed by State Route 12, which continues along the remainder of the shoreline. Sites on this island include the Park Entrance, Whalebone Junction Information Station; Coquina Beach, which has a bathhouse and swim beach (lifeguards in summer months); Bodie Island Lighthouse; Bodie Island Visitor Center with a nature trail; Oregon Inlet with a campground; and Oregon Inlet Fishing Center with a kayak launch and boat launch. Roanoke Sound separates Bodie Island from Roanoke Island to the west. Roanoke Island is shaded tan, and has the towns of Manteo and Wanchese marked, as well as the Dare County Regional Airport and the green sliver of land on the northern tip representing Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, National Park Service Group Headquarters. Continuing south from Bodie Island, State Route 12 crosses Oregon Inlet and passes Bonner Bridge Pier and the Refuge Visitor Center, which has a nature trail along the pink-shaded Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. Pea Island as well as Hatteras and Ocracoke islands farther south curve around the largest body of water on this map, Pamlico Sound. Towns and sites on Hatteras Island include Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Salvo Sound Access, which has a kayak launch and bathhouse, Avon, a fishing pier, and Haulover Sound Access with a kayak launch and bathhouse. Hatteras Island comes to a point here, where a green strip on the ocean side encompasses Old Lighthouse Beach with a swim beach (lifeguards in summer months), Museum of the Sea Visitor Center, a nature trail, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras, Diamond Shoals, Cape Point with a campground, Frisco with a campground, and Bill Mitchell airstrip. The tan side of this section, facing the sound, encompasses the towns of Buxton and Frisco as well as the Buxton Beach Access point. Now traveling west and slightly south, State Route 12 continues through a blend of tan and green areas, including Frisco Beach with a swim beach and bathhouse, Sandy Bay Sound Access with a kayak launch, US Weather Bureau Station Visitor Information, and the town of Hatteras. A blue dashed line crosses the Hatteras Inlet, which connects Hatteras Island with Ocracoke Island. More blue dashed lines connect both ends of Ocracoke Island on the sound side and continue west. Text near the inlet reads, “Ferry Service: A free ferry runs daily year-round and a passenger ferry runs seasonally between Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. Visit www.ncdot.gov/divisons/ferry for more information.” State Route 12 continues on Ocracoke Island past the Pony Pen, Ocracoke with a campground, a nature trail, Ocracoke Beach with swimming and a bathhouse, Ocracoke Island airstrip, Ocracoke Lighthouse, the town of Ocracoke, and Ocracoke Island Discovery Center, which has a boat launch. The ferry connects the towns of Hatteras and Ocracoke. Text in this area reads “To Swan Quarter via toll ferry (2.5 hours)” and “To Cedar Island via toll ferry (2.25 hours).” Ocracoke Inlet curls around the southern end of the island near the lower left corner of the map. Green text here reads Cape Lookout National Seashore. A site near the lower right corner of the map is labeled USS Monitor National Marine Sanctuary. West of Cape Hatteras National Seashore The section of Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge shown on this map is shaped like a wide, ragged-edged letter V, and it winds into the refuge at the top center. Albemarle Sound curves across the northern coastline of the refuge, and Croatan Sound separates Roanoke Island from the refuge. The combined US Route 64/264 crosses from Bodie Island to Roanoke Island, and then the Croatan Sound to reach Manns Harbor on the refuge. From there US Route 64 travels west and US Route 264 travels south along the coastline, past Stumpy Point, Englehard, and, off the left edge the map “To Swan Quarter.” The tan refuge land is patterned fairly evenly with pale blue triangles. Legend A legend in the top left corner of the map reads as follows: Green for Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Light blue for sound water depths of 0 to 6 feet (0 to 2 meters), and Darker blue for sound water depths of over 6 feet (over 2 meters). A column of symbols represents Bathhouse, Swim beach (Lifeguards in summer months), Boat launch, Kayak launch, Campground, and Nature trail. A scale in the upper right corner of the map measures distances of 1 and 5 kilometers and 1 and 5 miles.