It’s not very often you see a beach like this. In fact, I think this was the first time I had been on a totally deserted beach. False Cape State Park is so remote because it is on a spit of land beyond Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge which doesn’t allow vehicular traffic. So the only way to False Cape is walking, hiking, boating or a once-daily tram (which we took) through the four miles of the Refuge. I expected since we’d be arriving with the rest of the tram that there would be some other people on the beach, but aside from one other group who conveniently left before we did, it was empty.
The dunes were amazing; big and vast. One odd thing was seeing some trucks racing down the beach. Apparently, some grandfathered beach-driving permits distributed long ago in North Carolina are still in circulation, but those permits are gradually dying out.
There are campsites really close to the beach so this would be a fabulous place to backpack/bike/boat into. The only drawback were biting flies, both normal sized and massive. That could get really old camping.
