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The ferry from Hatteras drops you at the inlet, and from there it's 13 miles to Ocracoke Village with no commercial development between. Cape Hatteras National Seashore on both sides — beach on one flank, maritime shrub thicket and open sound flats on the other. The road doesn't try to improve on what's there. That restraint is the point.
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