Location & Hours

OBX History Weekend returns Wednesday, March 30th, through Saturday, April 2nd, 2022. Find more information here.


OBX History Weekend is a free, interactive, public-oriented symposium celebrating the questers, inventors, dreamers, and pioneers whose paths included the Outer Banks. Each day hosts different presentations, entertainments, site tours and living history reenactments that include new information about Roanoke colonists and their remarkable discoveries; English and Native views of the Carolina Algonquians; new discoveries about the fate of the fabled Lost Colony; a new view of Sir Walter Raleigh; and groundbreaking aviators including the Wright Brothers and Sister, General Billy Mitchell, Amelia Earhart, Chuck Yeager, Francis Rogallo and much, much more.

The program is designed as a gathering of scholars from around the world to discuss from their own unique perspectives the remarkable emergence of new research which is certain to stimulate excitement and discussion on the Outer Banks.