Places to visit near Avon: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse & more
About 2.7M people a year visit Cape Hatteras National Seashore. None of our places to visit is inside Avon; 5 are within 40 miles. The mix takes in 2 lighthouses, 2 national seashores and a museum. For a full day, there is Wright Brothers National Memorial, 47 mi away.
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Lighthouse in North Carolina, United States.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
Places on the map
At the edge of the map sits Cape Lookout National Seashore, 35 mi out.
Orange: Avon. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
All of them, one by one
Everything here is within 60 miles, 8 places in all.
2Wright Brothers National Memorial
Located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine.
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5Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
Historic site which commemorates Roanoke Colony.
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8Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Avon → · Avon’s history →
Photo credits
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse: Henryhartley, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wright Brothers National Memorial: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Cape Hatteras National Seashore: Vbofficial, Public domain · Bodie Island Light: RyanGRodgers, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Raleigh National Historic Site: Sarah Stierch, CC BY 4.0 · Jockey's Ridge State Park: Zach Rudisin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cape Lookout National Seashore: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 3.0 · Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station: Elizabeth from burlington, CC BY 2.0
