Week of October 20, 2025 - October 26, 2025

NCBBA Red Drum Tournament

  • Wednesday, October 22nd - Saturday, October 25th
Avon

Registration is currently open for the Annual North Carolina Beach Buggy Association’s (NCBBA) Red Drum Tournament. The tournament features more than $10,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs.

The tournament offers miles of naturally isolated fishing grounds along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, allowing anglers to maintain social distance while enjoying the exceptional fall fishing conditions of the Outer Banks. Anglers fish from ORV Ramp 23 to Ramp 38, and possiblly Ramps 43 and 44 if judge availability permits. Anglers may fish where they please within the tournament boundaries, as there are no station assignments during the 60 hours of wide-open fishing. This year’s banquet and awards ceremony may be subject to restrictions by state or local authorities in regard to group gatherings, depending on the state of the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Hotel Manteo

Hotel Manteo

With a laid-back, get-away-from-it-all ethos, Hotel Manteo captures the historical significance of Roanoke Island and the small-town charm of downtown Manteo in a lifestyle-driven experience that goes far beyond that of the traditional beach town hotel. Rooted in Manteo’s rich history and the coastal Carolina way of life, Hotel Manteo offers an immersive stay, warm and friendly hospitality, and access to the very best of the Outer Banks. It’s time to unwind, and to let go.

Basnight's Lone Cedar Cafe

Basnight's Lone Cedar Cafe

Enjoy Waterfront Dining at Basnight's Lone Cedar Café where we specialize in fresh and local Outer Banks seafood. If you’re craving the freshest fish, clams, crab, shrimp and oysters from local North Carolina waters, you’ll find them at the Lone Cedar Café. Since it first opened in 1996, Basnight’s has been the restaurant where all the movers and shakers in the state would eat when they visted the barrier islands. Owned by Outer Banks native and former state Sen. Marc Basnight and his family, the restaurant, located on the Nags Head-Manteo causeway, is busy nearly all year long. But its lineage is not the reason it’s become so popular. Lone Cedar can boast that it serves only fresh local seafood caught by local fishermen, as well as the freshest North Carolina produce available.