The Park celebrates the first English settlement in America.
Twenty-three years before Jamestown, there was Roanoke Island. The
settlement didn’t survive, but the history, adventure and family fun
did. Roanoke Island Festival Park is an interactive family attraction
located on 25 acres, across from the Manteo NC waterfront. The Park
celebrates the first English settlement in America.
Explore Coastal Algonquin culture and history in the American Indian Town, the Park’s newest exhibit. Longhouses represent the historical homes of American Indians from the region. See our dance circle; planting and harvesting area; work shelters offering activities like rope making, mat and basket weaving, net mending, food preparation, tanning hides and fishing. Climb into the creek-side canoe and then board the Elizabeth II, a representation of one of the seven English ships from the Roanoke Voyage of 1585 and help set the sails, plot your course and swab the decks! Also visit the Settlement Site and try straw and feather beds, woodworking, and games. See the blacksmith fashion his 16th century wares. Explore 400 years of Outer Banks history in the hands-on Roanoke Adventure Museum, for all ages. See the Legend of Two-Path film.
Enjoy the Art Gallery, with monthly changing exhibits, the Fossil Pit, Museum Store, Outer Banks History Center and marsh-side boardwalks that surround the site. Walk across the bridge to the Roanoke Island Maritime Museum, just a block away, which features a working boathouse and the Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse. For More information call (252) 475-1500 or visit roanokeisland.com.c