Kayak camping, tides & launches: Outer Banks & Pamlico Sound
Outer Banks & Pamlico Sound: Coastal paddling with 141 campsites, 497 boat launches and 52 tide stations, plus slack-water times for 26 tidal current stations. See them on the map, check today's tides and wind, or, with a Coast Map Pass, download the whole region (36 MB) to your phone for trips without signal.
141campsites
497boat launches
52tide stations
26current stations
36 MBoffline download
Campsites
From OpenStreetMap, coloured on the map by what you need before staying. 11 mention boat, canoe or kayak access (馃浂). Always confirm fees, permits and closures with the operator.
Fee or reservation (27)
- Bells Island Campground 馃浂
- Camp Boddie
- Camp Hardee
- Camp Hatteras RV Resort & Campground
- Cape Woods Campgrounds and Cabins
- Cedar Creek Campground
- Cedar Point Campground
- Flanners Beach/Neuse River Campground 馃浂
- Frisco Campground
- Goose Creek State Park Family Campground
- Goose Creek State Park Group Campground
- Goose Creek State Park Primitive Campground
- Hammocks Beach Group Campsite 馃浂
- Hammocks Beach State Park Primitive Campsites 馃浂
- Hammocks Beach State Park Primitive Campsites 馃浂
- Hatteras Sands Camping Resort
- Hidden Lake Retreat
- National Park Service Ocracoke Campground
- North Beach Campground 馃浂
- Northwest River Park Campground
- Ocean Waves Campground
- Oregon Inlet Campground
- Rivers Edge Family Campground
- Rodanthe Watersports and Campground
- Sands of Time Campground
- Southern Point Campground
- Waters Edge RV Park
Permit, protocol or private (1)
Free or backcountry (7)
- Bennett Creek Paddle-In High Ground Campsites 馃浂
- Bennetts Creek Paddle-In Platform Campsites 馃浂
- Cape Lookout beach camping 馃浂
- Hammocks Beach State Park Group Campsites 馃浂
- Lake Drummond Reservation Primitive
- River Park North Campground
- River Park North Campground
Fees not recorded (check locally) (48)
- Apache
- Arapahoe
- Camp Albemarle
- Camp Cale
- Camp Caroline
- Camp Sam Hatcher
- Cape Point Campground
- Captain Jim鈥檚 Campground
- Cashie River Campground
- Cashie River Treehouses and Campground
- Cherokee
- Clay Hill Campground
- Comanche
- Creekside Lodging, Rentals & Campground (Full Hook-Up RV Sites)
- Croatan
- Don Lee Camp & Retreat Center
- Frisco Woods Campground
- Fulchers Landing Campground
- Goose Creek RV Resort
- Harkers Island RV Resort & Campground 馃浂
- Iroquois
- Jerniman's Campground
- Keech's Kampground
- Lazy Days Campground
- Long Point Camping
- Millis Family Campground
- Mohawk
- New Bern KOA
- Oyster Point Campground
- Pettigrew State Park Campground
- Pettigrew State Park Group Campground
- Riverside Campgrounds
- Riverside RV Park
- Sandy Point Resort Campgrounds
- Seahaven Marine RV Park
- Seminole
- Simmons Mainland Campground
- Sioux
- St. Clair Landing Family Campground
- Stonewall Campground
- The Eagle's Nest Campground
- The Landing RV Park
- The Pines RV Park & Campground
- Tuscarora
- Twin Lakes RV & Camping Resort
- Willows Landing Campground
- YMCA Camp Sea Gull
- YMCA Camp Seafarer
Tide stations
Highs and lows for the next year, the 24-hour tide curve, wind and the marine forecast.
- Atlantic Beach
- Atlantic Beach Bridge
- Beaufort Inlet Channel Range
- Beaufort, Duke Marine Lab
- Beaufort, Taylor Creek
- Bogue Inlet
- Cape Hatteras
- CAPE HATTERAS FISHING PIER
- Cape Lookout (ocean)
- Cape Lookout Bight
- Cedar Island
- Channel Marker Lt. 59
- Coral Bay, Atlantic Beach
- Core Creek Bridge
- Davis Slough
- Davis, Core Sound
- DUCK PIER
- Engelhard
- Fort Macon, USCG Station
- Gallant Channel
- Harkers Island Bridge
- Hatteras (ocean)
- Hatteras Inlet
- Jennettes Pier, Nags Head (ocean)
- Kitty Hawk (ocean)
- Lenoxville Point
- Manns Harbor, Croatan Sound
- Morehead City
- Morehead City Harbor
- N.C. State Fisheries
- New River Inlet
- Newport River (Yacht Club)
- North River Bridge
- Ocracoke Inlet
- Ocracoke, Pamlico Sound
- Old House Channel
- Oregon Inlet (USCG Station)
- Oregon Inlet Bridge
- Oregon Inlet Channel
- OREGON INLET MARINA
- Oriental, Neuse River
- Oyster Creek, Croatan Sound
- Peter's Ditch
- Pungo River, Route 45, NC
- Roanoke Marshes Light, Croatan Sound
- Roanoke Sound Channel
- Rodanthe, Pamlico Sound
- Sea Level
- Shell Point, Harkers Island
- Sneads Ferry, New River
- SpoonersCreek
- Swansboro, East Corbett Ave. Bridge
Tidal currents and slack water
- Beaufort Inlet Approach
- Bird Shoal, SE of
- Blair Channel
- Bodie Island-Pea Island, between
- Carrot Island
- Coast Guard Tower, southwest of
- Fort Macon, 0.2 mile NE of
- Fort Macon, 0.6 mile SE of
- Hatteras Inlet
- Herbert C. Bonner Bridge, WSW of
- Middle Marshes, S of
- Morehead City, RR. bridge, N of
- Morehead City, S of
- Newport Marshes, E of
- Newport Marshes, SE of
- Ocracoke Inlet, channel entrance
- Radio Island, E of
- Shackleford Banks, 0.8 mile S of
- Shackleford Point, NE of
- Sheep Island Slue
- Sugarloaf Island, 0.2 mile S of
- Teaches Hole Channel
- Tombstone Point, 0.1 mile E of
- Turning Basin
- Virginia Beach, south end
- Wallace Channel
Boat launches
- Astoria Boat Ramp
- Boat Ramp
- Brice's Creek Boat Launch
- Brier Hall Access
- Canoe/Kayak launch
- Dixon Fields Canoe Launch
- Duck Boardwalk Kayak Launch
- East lake Access Area
- Emerald Isle Boat Ramp
- Fort Landing
- Great Lake Boat Launch
- Haywood Landing Boat Launch
- Indian Creek Launch
- KAYAK
- Kayak Launch
- Long Point Boat Launch
- Mackeys Marina
- Mashoes Boat Ramp
- Mason's Landing
- Midway Drive Boatramp
- Mill Landing Boat Ramp
- Milltail Creek
- Salters Creek Boat Ramp
- Shoup's Landing
- Sneads Ferry Boating Access
- Stumpy Point Access Area
- The Anchorage Inn Marina Slipway
- U.S. Coast Guard - Base Elizabeth City
- U.S. Coast Guard - Station Emerald Island
- U.S. Coast Guard - Station Fort Macon
- U.S. Coast Guard - Station Hobucken
- U.S. Coast Guard - Station Oregon Inlet
- Village Marina
- Wind Over Waves Community Boat Ramp (Private)
Plus 459 unnamed launches on the map.
Marine forecast areas
Croatan and Roanoke Sounds 路 Currituck Sound 路 Neuse and Bay Rivers 路 Pamlico Sound 路 Pamlico and Pungo Rivers 路 S of Cape Hatteras NC to Ocracoke Inlet NC out to 20 NM 路 S of Cape Lookout NC to Surf City NC out to 20 NM 路 S of Currituck Beach Light NC to Oregon Inlet NC out to 20 NM 路 S of Ocracoke Inlet NC to Cape Lookout NC out to 20 NM 路 S of Oregon Inlet NC to Cape Hatteras NC out to 20 NM
Download for GPS and other map apps
141 campsites and 489 boat launches as GPX (GPS units, Gaia GPS, OsmAnd) or KML (Google Earth, Google My Maps).