Your Parks, Your Impact

Help us create new experiences in your Outer Banks national parks today!
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Cape Hatteras

National Seashore

Fort Raleigh

National Historic Site

Wright Brothers

National Memorial

Adopt A Pony

Support Ocracoke’s most beloved residents by symbolically adopting an Ocracoke pony today! Get your official adoption certificate and photo of your chosen pony.

Adopt A Sea Turtle Nest

Get an official adoption certificate and updates on your very own sea turtle nest! You will help fund projects and programs that protect and enhance Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Protect our Parks

Our OBX national parks protect the nature, history, and spirit of freedom you think of when you make your way here each year. Find out how you can protect them today.

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Meet Your Ranger: Mike Anderson

Meet Your Ranger: Mike Anderson

Please tell us a little bit about yourself.    Hometown: Chesterton, Indiana  Relevant job experience: 8 years with the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service in a variety of positions, mostly focusing on interpretation.  Position in our...

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Supporter Story: Colleen Minard

Supporter Story: Colleen Minard

My siblings and I were born in Charlottesville, Virginia, but grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. Our parents, Paul and Mary Ann, loved the Outer Banks, and our family spent weeks camping there when we were growing up. Colleen and her mom, Mary Ann, on Hatteras in 1966....

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Meet Your Ranger: George S. Jaramillo

Meet Your Ranger: George S. Jaramillo

Please tell us a little bit about yourself.    Hometown: Miami, Florida Program of study: I received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, ’01, and a MSc in Historic Preservation at Columbia University, ‘05. I received my PhD in Cultural...

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Outer Banks Forever is the official nonprofit partner of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial, helping to protect and enhance these special places.