Sandwiched between the Towns of Kitty Hawk and Duck, Southern Shores represents a bit of a break from the busy beach towns to the south. Southern Shores was the first planned town on the Outer Banks and it looks different from the other towns. Here, the Outer Banks is more narrow, limiting growth, but the folks behind the development of this town liked it that way because it allowed them to preserve many of the trees and patches of maritime forest. There’s a mixed-use bike and walking path beside the road (separated by a grassy and sometimes tree-lined median), and along the streets and in the pocket neighborhoods near the Sound, it’s quiet and quaint.
