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2026 Swansboro Birding Spots Guide

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3rd?Row Family Beach Home with Views & E...

Make yourself at home in this comfortable third‑row beach home with room for up to 13 guests. Thoughtfully designed for groups and families, it offers four bedrooms plus a additional area with Queen, Twin, and bunk beds — linens and beds made...

  • Emerald Isle
  • 5 Bedrooms
  • 3 Bathrooms
  • Sleeps 13
Pool Table, Arcade, Fenced-in Yard, Fire...

This charmingly modernized, PET FRIENDLY, home is packed with amenities including a pool table, arcade, movie room, massive outdoor deck, fire pit, fenced-in back yard, boat parking, and a private community boat ramp! Ideally located between...

  • Pine Knoll Shores
  • 5 Bedrooms
  • 3 Bathrooms
  • Sleeps 13
Lookout Cruises

Visitors can enjoy the Crystal Coast’s most coveted and hard-to-reach shorelines, or just embark on a breezy cruise of the open waters in search of dolphins and sunsets, with a trip that’s guided by Lookout Cruises. This local tour...

Pool| Close to Beach| Sleeps 10

Unwind with the whole family at this peaceful, soundside, roomy home with fast access to the beach, ocean and sound. With enough room to sleep 10, this generously furnished property in an uncrowded location in Emerald Isle is ideal for family or...

  • Emerald Isle
  • 4 Bedrooms
  • 2 Bathrooms
  • Sleeps 10
Shackleford Wild Horse & Shelling Safari

Take a quick and scenic ferry ride with your experienced guide over to the pristine Outer Banks Island of Shackleford Banks, which is part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore. There, you are introduced to the wild horses of Shackleford...

Hammocks Beach State Park

Just west of the town of Emerald Isle, and across a maze of marshy terrain off the coast of mainland Swansboro, lies Hammocks Beach State Park, an incredible refuge for beach lovers who want to forego the crowds, and enjoy a parcel of barrier island...

Swansboro's Bicentennial Park may not be the grandest of most extensive park along the Crystal Coast's Inner Banks, but it is certainly one of its most scenic. Surrounded by the deep waters of the White Oak River and Swansboro Harbor, patrons to...

Enjoy a gorgeous sunset, a little birdwatching, or just a leisurely and short hike that hovers above the White Oak River with a visit to the aptly-named Riverview Park. Located along NC Highway 24 / Corbett Avenue, in between the central downtown...