BURGAW – Pender County recently unveiled a new marketing brand and a new tagline, “Find Your Treasure.” “Pender County is diverse,” said Randell Woodruff, county manager. “We knew it would be a challenge to find a comprehensive design that included our vast agriculture and coastal lands.” Ford Design Group, based in Wilmington, created a design that encompassed all of...
In May, Topsail Beach was selected for a national award for its beach nourishment program. Today, the Town of Topsail Beach was selected as one of the top 14 most beautiful beaches in the USA. Selected by TripAdvisor, Topsail Beach can be named number one in the list of 14 - but it requires your vote! Click here to vote. We encourage every reader to vote for Topsail Beach. We already know in our heart of hearts...
What's happening in the world of Pender County tourism? Click here to read the July 11, e-newsletter.
Each week Pender County Tourism releases a tourism update. Here's what happened lately. Click here.
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Pender County Tourism welcomed two new restaurants this week - The Sailfish and Vikki's Place. Plus, click here for a tourism update.
There are several events and festivals to visit this weekend. Click here. Kick off your weekend with a family-friendly movie at Soundside Park! Then dive into BBQ at the Cape Fear BBQ Festival.
It's Memorial Day and we urge you to pause and remember and honor our veterans and those who sacrificed their lives in battle. Our weekly tourism update is available here. Don't miss all the exciting things happening in Pender County.
Pender County Tourism complied a list of Memorial Weekend events and things to do - from sandy beaches to golf sand traps! Click here for the complete list.
TOPSAIL BEACH – The Town of Topsail Beach was named Best Restored Beach in 2016 by the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) today. Only five beaches were selected in the ASBPA’s much-anticipated annual list of the nation’s best restored beaches. In addition to Topsail Beach, beaches in Galveston, TX, Highland Park, IL, Seabrook Island, SC, and Redondo Beach, CA were honored for their...
This week's tourism update can be read here. In this week's edition we featured Harrell House B&B, Dees Drug, and upcoming important dates. You may subscribe at no charge to receive our weekly emails by emailing tproctor@pendercountync.gov.
Topsail Island is a trilogy and a duet Topsail Beach, Surf City and North Topsail are the three small towns that make up one Island “Topsail”. Each of the three towns are uniquely themselves with their own special treasures. Which one is better you ask? The answer is: Whichever one you happen to be in at the time. To further complicate matters Topsail Island may be divided into three towns...
Island Attitude When I stand on the sand and look to the sea it puts my life into perspective. So what if the dishes aren’t washed or that last pile of paperwork has not been completed? My life is good and all is right with me today. If once you have slept on an island You'll never be quite the same; You may look as you looked the day before And go by the same old name, You may bustle about in street...
It’s one for the money, two for the show three to get ready and go cat go, but don’t you step on my Sand Dunes. (You didn’t see that one coming did you?) I borrowed the lyrics from Elvis “The King” Presley to make an important point. Seriously Folks, locals and visitors alike. Mother Nature and sometimes mankind place the sand dunes there as our first line of defense. They are...
WATHA – Just north of Burgaw is a best kept secret that Luke Dooley wants to shout from the cabin-tops. It’s Camp Kirkwood, managed by the Wilmington Family YMCA and nurtured by the Friends of Camp Kirkwood. The camp is 200 acres including an 8-acre lake. Dooley is the new Associate Executive Director at Camp Kirkwood. The UNC-Wilmington graduate served at a YMCA camp in Alabama and 10 years at Camp Hanes...
ArtBeat of Burgaw is offering six weeks of classes for children and young adults. The classes vary from week to week and include painting, theater, drawing, stitlting (yes, walking on stilts!), horses, pottery, and writing. For more information click here. Visit their website at www.artbeatofburgaw.com.
It's Nation Travel and Tourism Week. Here's the latest news from Pender County Tourism. Click here.
For this week's tourism update, click here.
Stomp the Park, Relay For Life, and much more is happening this weekend. Check out our list of upcoming events. Click here.
Just when you thought it was safe to break out the shorts and T-shirts Mother Nature sends a parting gift – a shot of freezing temps. Not only is that bad news for the plants that we all put out but also for any turtles heading back toward the coast after a long winter at sea. It doesn’t take much for one of the little guys to hit a patch of cold air or water and become stunned. North Carolina had...
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SURF CITY – The Surf City Ocean Pier may be one of the most photographed attractions in Pender County. Photos of the pier in the morning light and artsy shots from underneath make the pier appear as a cathedral. The pier strikes a pose for visual media and is a social media darling with more than 25,990 Facebook friends. Fans look forward to the pier’s weather reports, photos, and fishing reports. “The...
OK, OK, OK, Soooooo. . . . . . . You’ve got a real estate related question about vacation rentals. You can ask but I won’t answer until you listen to a story. Ready? It goes something like this: A really old man was sitting on a dock fishing. Nothing was biting but he continued to sit and patiently waited for the fish to bite. All of a sudden a frog jumps up on the dock beside the man. The frog says...
Experience Pender County’s Great Outdoors Pender County is an outdoor-lover’s paradise. With beaches, the Intracoastal Waterway, the Northeast Cape Fear River, the Black River, and a multitude of streams and creeks, we have boating, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, paddle boarding and jet skis adventures. With the Holly Shelter Game Lands, we have hunting and hiking. Go shelling on our beaches, walk a trail,...
