Nags Head Woods

Nags Head Woods is a forest in Dare, North Carolina. Nags Head Woods is situated nearby to the neighborhood Old Nags Head Place, as well as near the hamlet Sound Side.

Places of Interest

Highlights include First Flight Airport and Wright Brothers National Memorial.

First Flight Airport

Aerodrome

Photo: Ke7dlt, CC BY-SA 4.0.

First Flight Airport is a public-use airport located one nautical mile west of the central business district of Kill Devil Hills, a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

Park

Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.

Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates Wright Flyer; the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine.

USS Huron

Disaster remains

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

USS Huron was an iron-hulled gunboat of the United States Navy. She was a screw steamer with full-rig auxiliary sail, built by John Roach & Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1875 and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 November 1875.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colington and Nags Head.

Colington

Photo: Packer1028, CC0.

Colington is a city in North Carolina.

Nags Head

Photo: James Willamor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Nags Head is a city on the Outer Banks. Legend has it that the names comes from when pirates used to put a lantern around a horse's neck and walk along the beach.

Kill Devil Hills

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Kill Devil Hills is a colorfully-named town on the coast of North Carolina. It is part of the Outer Banks, and is best known for its association with the Wright Brothers' historic flights in the first airplane in 1903.

Nags Head Woods

Type: Forest
Address: NC
Location: Dare, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.98489° or 35° 59′ 6″ north

Longitude

-75.66518° or 75° 39′ 55″ west

Elevation

23 feet (7 metres)

Open location code

8776X8MM+XW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369026037

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

GeoNames ID

4481431

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Old Nags Head Place and Sound Side.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Etheridge Family Cemetery and Nags Head Woods Forest Entrance.

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