Cape Fear Coast
North Carolina’s Cape Fear Coast offers something for everyone. There are, of course, beautiful beaches that attract surfers, but there’s also great shopping, dining, attractions, galleries, historical sites, museums, and the EUE Screen Gems Studios where you can take a tour and go “star” gazing.
Seafood
This narrow cone-shaped peninsula of land was first discovered in 1524
and settled in 1729, so you will find a rich history and many homes in
downtown Wilmington on the Cape Fear River.
Both Carolina Beach and Kure Beach are located on Pleasure Island, south of Wilmington on Highway 421. Carolina Beach offers an old fashioned boardwalk with ice cream shops and beach gear, a pier and an arcade. Quiet Kure Beach has the oldest continuously operated family owned wooden fishing pier in North Carolina. South of Kure Beach you will find Fort Fisher State Recreation Area and the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher.
