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Outer Banks Seafood Festival

Nags Head, NC · Food & Drink

When

October 17, 2026

Where

Soundside Event Site · Nags Head · NC

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A sound-side festival at the Soundside Event Site celebrates the Outer Banks' commercial fishing heritage with local seafood vendors, cooking demonstrations, and the chance to meet working fishermen. It draws visitors from across the barrier islands each fall.

The history within reach

• Outer Banks Seafood Festivalsame spot

  A sound-side festival at the Soundside Event Site celebrates the Outer Banks' commercial fishing heritage with local seafood vendors, cooking demonstrations, and the chance to meet working fishermen.

• Jockey's Ridge, a dune that walks1.9 mi

  The tallest natural sand dune on the Atlantic coast, moving slowly southwest and shrinking as it goes.

• The Freedmen's Colony on Roanoke Island3.5 mi

  Around three thousand people who had escaped slavery built a town here under Union protection, streets laid out, a sawmill, a fishery, schools taught largely by Black teachers, and men enlisting in the Colored Troops.

• Biscuits N' Porn4.0 mi

  A gas-station country store on the Nags Head line, feeding the Outer Banks since 1978, whose rack of vintage adult magazines earned it a surfer nickname the owners eventually painted on the sign.

• The Lost Colony and the word on the post4.8 mi

  John White left 115 settlers, including his granddaughter Virginia Dare, and sailed for supplies.