Corolla Attractions

Corolla Wild Horse Museum : Located in the Historic Corolla Schoolhouse, the Wild Horse Museum offers a brief history, interavctive displays and a gift shop.

Hours: Daily 11am- 4pm (call ahead to verify) Admission is Free. Call 252-453-8002 or visit their website here.

Curritcuk Beach Lighthouse: The only unpainted lighthouse in North Carolina, the Curritcuk Lighthouse built in 1875, stands 158 ft and flashes in 20-second intervals. Its light can be seen for 18 nautical miles.

Hours: Sunday - Saturday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Off-season hours: Sunday - Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Call 252-453-8152 or visit their website www.currituckbeachlight.com

Corolla Chapel: Corolla's only year round church was built in 1885. The church is interdenominational and has become a very popular spot for weddings.Services are held every Sunday at 10am. Call 252.453.4224 or visit them on the web at www.corollachapel.org

Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education: Learn all about important local traditions such as waterfowl hunting, decoy making, and fishing at this 22,000 square ft wildlife center. The center houses its own auditorium, exhibit hall, and waterfowl decoy gallery. Call (252)453-0221 or go to www.ncwildlife.org.

April-October Hours: Sunday - Saturday 10:00 AM- 6:00 PM
November-March Hours: Sunday - Saturday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Whalehead Club: Built in the 1920's as the winter residence for wealthy industrialist Edward Collings Knight, Jr . The 21,000 square ft cottage, cost an estimated $385,000 and took 3 years to build. Architecturally, the Whalehead is unlike any other structure on the sound.

Call (252) 453-9040 or visit them on the web www.whaleheadclub.org

April-October Hours: Sunday - Saturday 10:00 PM - 6:00 PM November-March Hours: Sunday - Saturday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Currituck Banks National Estuarine Preserve: Established in 1989, this 954 acre protected land doesn't allow hunting or fishing. A number of different species reside in the various habitats within the estuarine including ocean beach, sand dunes, grasslands, shrub thicket, maritime forest, brackish and freshwater marshes, tidal flats and subtidal soft bottoms.

Call (252) 261-8891 or visit www.ncnerr.org