Pleasure Island, encompassing Carolina Beach, Kure Beach and Historic Fort Fisher are home to some of the most unique beach towns and beautiful beaches in North Carolina It is nationally recognized as one of the East Coast's leading sport fishing ports with a wonderfully eclectic mix of colorful beach, harbor and waterway-front vacation homes, oak lined streets and low country styled neighborhoods. There is a lively downtown Business and Arts District adjacent to a 1950's era Boardwalk and Amusement Park.
You can explore award winning seafood restaurants, ocean & riverfront camping with your 4x4, hiking and biking trails through five-hundred-year-old Sea Pine forests. Take a drive through Carolina Beach and Kure Beach and you will arrive at Fort Fisher, home to North Carolina's largest State Aquarium, a restored civil war-era Fort, ecologically diverse wetland marshes and, of course, over seven miles of North Carolina's most beautiful beaches with the gentle Atlantic lapping its shore.
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