Largest Outer Banks maritime forest calls out to be explored.
Many visitors to the Outer Banks have experience a small part of Kitty Hawk Woods as they drive along the Woods Road in Kitty Hawk. But that is only a small sampling of a vast maritime forest filled with the beauty of nature and the history the area. Kip Tabb, writing for the Coastal Review Online tells the tale.
“The woodpeckers have been particularly energetic this year in Kitty Hawk Woods. Or perhaps they have been more obviously active than in the past. There’s a tree along the Currituck Sound Path that gives stark evidence of their activity. Sawdust covers the ground around it, its trunk a pitted tribute to the power of a woodpecker’s beak.
There are three North Carolina Coastal Reserve sites on the Outer Banks, Kitty Hawk Woods, Buxton Woods and Currituck Banks. At 1,900 acres, Kitty Hawk Woods Reserve is the largest. It’s also the most difficult to access.”
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