It’s National Lighthouse Day! Can You Spot All 8 Lies About North Carolina Lighthouses?
Think you know every lighthouse standing on the North Carolina coast?
Even lifelong beach walkers get a few wrong.
National Lighthouse Day falls on August 7, marking the 1789 act that first put America’s lighthouses under federal control, and here’s a two truths and a lie game to mark it.
Each round below hands you three statements about a real North Carolina lighthouse, two of them true and one of them a lie. You tap the fake.
How well do you score?
A Tower Near Corolla’s Wild Horses
Wild horses roam the beach near Corolla.
A brick lighthouse tower rises just up the sand from them.
Can you spot the lie?
Stripes With a Complicated Past
The horizontal black-and-white bands at Bodie Island are among the most photographed markings on the Outer Banks.
Can you spot the lie?
The Tower Above Diamond Shoals
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse rises above the shifting sandbars sailors once nicknamed the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
Its spiral stripes are the most photographed pattern on the Outer Banks.
Can you spot the lie?
The Lighthouse You Reach by Ferry
You can’t drive to Ocracoke Island.
You take a ferry to reach it.
The lighthouse waiting on that island is one of the least understood on the Outer Banks.
Can you spot the lie?
Diamonds on the Crystal Coast
Cape Lookout Lighthouse only reaches by boat.
Its checkerboard paint job is unlike anything else on the North Carolina coast.
Can you spot the lie?
The Lighthouse at the Mouth of Cape Fear
A brick lighthouse marks the mouth of the Cape Fear River on Bald Head Island.
Can you spot the lie?
The Lighthouse at Caswell Beach
Oak Island Lighthouse stands at Caswell Beach, along the southern stretch of North Carolina’s coast.
Can you spot the lie?
Edenton’s Waterfront Lighthouse
Edenton’s little lighthouse looks nothing like the tall brick towers out on the Outer Banks.
Can you spot the lie?
8 North Carolina Mountain Towns Locals Love (and 3 Tourists Overrun)
A line of out-of-state plates crawls toward the same famous overlook while everyone angles for the same photo.
A few miles back, locals turn off onto a side road toward a mountain town those cars will never find.
8 North Carolina Mountain Towns Locals Love (and 3 Tourists Overrun)
9 North Carolina Foods and Drinks Outsiders Just Don’t Understand
In North Carolina, saying the word barbecue out loud can start an argument.
The pork is never the problem. It’s the sauce, the cut, and which half of the state you’re standing in.
9 North Carolina Foods and Drinks Outsiders Just Don’t Understand
