What is the Inner Banks?
North Carolina’s Inner Banks is over 3,000 miles of inner coast line sited behind the better known Outer Banks. The area is expansive with a land mass over 22,000 square miles. Untainted, untarnished, and virtually untouched ever since the original settlers arrived here almost 500 years ago.

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Inner Banks Highlights:

•   Home to seven sounds; Pamlico, Albemarle, Bogue, Currituck, Croatan, Core and Roanoke.
•   The Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds have 9,000 miles of freshwater rivers and streams and over 1.5 million acres of brackish, estuarine waters.
•   The Albemarle and Pamlico Sound area is 2nd largest estuarine system in the United States
•   The Inner banks region encompasses a total of 22,227 square-miles according to Wikipedia
•   Thousands of miles of inner beaches and shoreline
•   World class fishing for drum, tarpon and other saltwater fish
•   Known for its superior shrimp and crabbing
•   Fresh water fishing for all major species including largemouth bass, catfish and crappie and brim
•   Just shy of 20 Atlantic Ocean inlets that feed into the inner banks from South Carolina border to Virginia border
•   Cost of living is far less when compared to the Outer Banks
•   52 hospitals are located in the Inner Banks region
•   Easy boating via federally maintained Intracoastal Waterway (ICW)
•   North Carolina has two deepwater state ports, Port of Morehead City and Port of Wilmington as well as inland facilities in Charlotte and Greensboro
•   The North Carolina ferry system has 21 ferries that transport over 1.1 million vehicles a year over 5 different bodies of water