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Approach and Docking
From Roanoke Sound Channel marker #30A turn to the West-Southwest between Manteo Channel entrance markers Red #2M and Green #3. Continue on past the Green #5, and then sequentially past the Red #6, #8 and #10. After rounding #10, turn to a course of around 340 degrees magnetic and you will be pointed at our facilities a few hundred yards ahead. The guest dock will be on your port side right after you pass the gazebo.
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Take The Alternate ICW and ENJOY the Trip!
Manteo welcomes north and southbound boaters taking the alternate ICW through the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and Neuse River (see map) where the route rejoins the ICW at Oriental NC. Not only does this route save 17 miles from the traditional ICW, it lets you SAIL and visit great spots like Manteo, Englehard, Ocracoke & Hatteras Islands without the worry of narrow channels, shoaling and bridges. The sole bridge on the route is a full 65' at normal high water. If you're tired of seeing the same old sights on the ICW...save time and enjoy Manteo and the Outer Banks of North Carolina! |
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Docks and Marina
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Boat Ramps
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Attractions Nearby
The Lost Colony is the longest-running outdoor symphonic drama in the world. Since 1937, over four million people have seen this dramatization of the plight and mysterious disappearance of the first English settlers in
North Carolina Aquarium, Roanoke - www.ncaquariums.com Welcome to the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island! Marvel at the largest collection of sharks in the state. Interact with scuba divers, touch an alligator and feed the stingrays as you explore the “Waters of the Outer Banks.” Visit our new exhibit Operation: Sea Turtle Rescue and plan your visit now!
The Elizabethan Gardens - www.elizabethangardens.org
Fanciful and elaborate gardens were kept to entertain Queen Elizabeth I during her reign. Our garden was created for your enjoyment, and as a living memorial to the time when Sir Walter Raleigh’s lost colonists lived in this very place over 400 years ago.
The Gardens include a collection of Renaissance statues, a sound-front Elizabethan-gazebo, a sunken Elizabethan knot garden – all adorned by an ever-changing palette of year-round color color from hydrangeas to native plants, perennials and camellias on ten sound-side acres.
Year-long highlights include beautiful winter-time Camellias, spring bulbs, colorful summer landscapes from hydrangeas to crepe myrtles, autumn hues of ornamental grasses and salvia, as well as seasonal events like an Easter Eggstravaganza, Harvest Hayday and WinterLights. The Gardens are founded and supported by The Garden Club of North Carolina.
The Gardens are open year-round, seven days a week. At our garden shops, enjoy the selection of plants available from their nursery, or the gift shop’s wonderful collection of statuary, gifts, books, note cards, candles, soaps, and edible delights.
We are located at 1411 National Park Drive Manteo, NC 27954 GPS: 35 56.2N 75 42.7w Hours vary seasonally. Visitation is by paid admission.
The Island Farm - A living history site c.1847 on Roanoke Island, NC - www.theislandfarm.com Over the past 150 years, on this day or that, on any wall in the house, a picture might have hung straight or crooked, wallpaper was put up or taken down, wasps sat, a television blared, pollen settled. On most any acre, corn suffered from too much or too little rain, a Buick got a coat of wax, fences were put up or fell down. But today, the layered past has been stripped back to circa 1847, at Island Farm, Roanoke Island’s newest historic site.
A living history site, Island Farm interprets daily life on Roanoke Island in the mid-1800s. The centerpiece of the site is the Etheridge farmstead, where Adam Etheridge built a house on land that had been farmed by his family since 1757. It is the oldest period restoration of a house on Roanoke Island, and includes 19th-century furnishings, some original to the house.
Visitors can explore nearly a dozen buildings, such as the farmhouse, a reconstructed slave cabin, outhouse, cookhouse, smokehouse, dairy, barns, chicken coop, corn crib, woodshed, and blacksmith shop. Nearby, the family graveyard is the final resting place of Mr. Etheridge and many of his descendents, while Crissy Bowser, who lived and worked on the farm, lies buried beneath what is known as the Crissy Oak.
Chickens range freely on the grounds, where you’ll also find a kitchen garden, grape arbor, island figs and a cornfield. Sheep, a cow, an ox and two banker ponies graze in the pastures. Exhibits in the Visitor Center help put daily life on the farm into historical context, with information on island culture, fishing, farming, boatbuilding, windmills, slavery, and the Freedmen’s Colony.
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America. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Paul Green, the show is produced summer nights by a company of more than 100 actors, dancers, singers and technicians Witness epic battles and Indian dances. Experience the sorrow and heartbreak of tragedy and loss. Be awed at the pageantry of the Queen and her court. Celebrate the birth of Virginia Dare. The Lost Colony is the forerunner of the modern Broadway musical and is a triumph of the American Theatre! 
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