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When you visit the Atlantis, you'll find our amenities don't end at the surf. Chairs, lounges and umbrellas are all complimentary in the summer months, and our beach attendants will gladly assist you.

The Atlantis Lodge is located in Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina. It is about 3 hours east of Raleigh, NC via US Highway 70E to Morehead City. After crossing the bridge to Atlantic Beach we are 3 miles to the west (a right at the first stoplight in Atlantic Beach) at Island Mile Post 5.

Eight beautiful golf courses are within a short distance with Bogue Banks Country Club directly across the street from the Atlantis. We offer great golf packages in the fall and spring. The NC Aquarium (closed for renovation until 2006), NC Maritime Museum, Fort Macon, and the historic Town of Beaufort all offer entertainment, education and history, while our famous fishing fleets and seafood restaurants offer once-in-a-lifetime challenges and culinary delights. The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is about 50 minutes away by boat.

On North Carolina's Crystal Coast, you can enjoy a wide array of restaurants and fine eateries offering traditional seafood, local fare, American, International and gourmet cuisine. North Carolina is famous for its fresh-from-the-boat seafood, made even more delicious by waterviews from many of our local restaurants. Barbecue is also a delicious North Carolina specialty, and visitors to the Crystal Coast can enjoy everything from casual barbecue to upscale restaurant specialties prepared by seasoned chefs. Visitors love the dining options available on North Carolina's Crystal Coast.

It is our mission to provide visitors, vacationers and residents with all the information they need to enjoy the Crystal Coast. Whether you’re here for a day, a week or spending a lifetime in beautiful coastal Carolina, if you don’t find what you’re looking for on our website, please don’t hesitate to contact us by phone or email. We’re glad to help. Provided here are some helpful and fun facts so that you may better enjoy your stay in our area. From beach access information to meetings and convention recommendations, we’re here to help make your time on the Crystal Coast great.

While you are visiting us, we’d like for you to enjoy a variety of attractions, especially the expanses of south-facing beaches for which the Crystal Coast is named. Our ocean and sound waters are famous for world-class fishing, and our restaurants are known for outstanding seafood.

It is easy for your group to explore our history that is preserved from the earliest explorers and settlers of North America at the Beaufort Historic Site and the History Place and through the Civil War at Fort Macon State Park. The North Carolina Maritime Museumpreserves and reflects the state’s relationship to its waters. The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum invites you to enjoy the art and cultural heritage that surroundshunting traditions on the Crystal Coast. The North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores offers a look at native marine life and hosts a variety of educational programs. The Aquarium was remodeled in May, 2006 and has tripled in size.

Visitors to the Crystal Coast always enjoy a harbor cruise tour of our active and working waterfronts or a dolphin watch, beachcombing tour or a customized fishing trip. You may also want to consider timing your tour around one of our annual festivals and events such as the North Carolina Seafood Festival in April, the Wooden Boat Show in May or the Beaufort Old Homes Tour in June.

North Carolina’s Crystal Coast is the Cape Lookout region of the North Carolina Outer Banks. The Crystal Coast’s colonial, cultural and natural history is interpreted through a variety of field excursions and at attraction sites. The Crystal Coast includes the seaside resorts and historic coastal villages of Beaufort, Morehead City, Atlantic Beach, Emerald Isle, Harkers Island, Down East and the Cape Lookout National Seashore.

The Crystal Coast is mall-free, but there is an impressive selection of shopping centers with interesting specialty store shopping on the waterfronts of Beaufort and Morehead City, and antique markets and art galleries worthy of a specialized tour.

Specialty shops span the Morehead City Waterfront on Evans Street from 5th through 8th streets. Galleries and antique shops are discussed in preceding sections. With the backdrop of the charter fleet of Morehead City, the great traditional seafood restaurants and many specialty restaurants, shopping on the waterfront includes book and gift shopping, specialty décor, jewelry and clothing. Among downtown shops, find a high-end scratch-and-dent furniture store.

From Orange Street, east, to Queen Street, Art and Antique galleries are discussed in the preceding sections. Sprinkled among specialty restaurants in Beaufort is interesting shopping that includes a nautical book/gift/clothing shop, women’s clothing stores, jewelry and gift shops and shops that specialize in everything from bags to history, especially local history. Check the side streets for Majorcan pottery and Christmas décor.

Between Bridges and Arendell streets from 28th to 30thstreets. Anchor stores are Lowe’s Food Store, Roses Department Store, Eckerd Drug Store, Home Emporium, Restaurants, & various specialty stores.

Nearly all specialties, largest store specializes in marine/fishing supplies. Smaller shops offer gifts, books, bagels & bakery items, kites, children’s clothing & crafts. A movie theater and restaurant are also in the shopping center.

Depart Hotel for historic Beaufort, final port of Blackbeard the Pirate’s flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge. Meet your guide to exhibits at the North Carolina Maritime Museum and see artifacts from the recent archeological find of the 18th-century pirate ship near Beaufort Inlet. Take the trip to the Top of the Museum for the “tour with a view”. Visit the Museum’s Watercraft Center for a look at restorations in progress of classic wooden boats of the Cape Lookout region of North Carolina.

Walk to the Beaufort Historic Site, one block east of the North Carolina Maritime Museum in the 100 block of Turner Street. Meet tour guide who will show you around three of the restorations at the Site, including the 1796 Courthouse, the only 18th century framed courthouse in North Carolina.

Have your guide point the way to the Old Burying Ground (a ½ block walk to Ann St.). Walking tour continues to Beaufort’s Old Burying Grounds which was deeded to the town in 1731 and was declared full in 1825. Its graves include those of the privateer Otway Burns, victims of the Indian wars with the hostile Core or Nous Indians, the common grave of sailors aboard the 19thcentury sailing trader Crissie Wright, and a child- the daughter of a British immigrant who died at sea and was buried on arrival in Beaufort, preserved in a keg of rum.

Shop and walk along Beaufort’s downtown waterfront on the way to lunch. Many delightful restaurants to choose from with a variety of southern coastal cuisine. After lunch, continue to visit shops along the waterfront and on adjoining side streets. Stroll along the city docks where you will probably see southbound transient yachts and wild horses on the island across the harbor. Front Street shops are also interesting as you leave the dock and walk beyond the NC Maritime Museum’s Watercraft Center. Depart Beaufort mid to late afternoon for arrival at hotel.