If you're heading for the North Carolina coast, be sure to pack North Carolina Beaches: A Guide to Coastal Access, by former Southern Living staffer Glenn Morris. Have you ever driven around the Outer Banks for three hours looking for public parking? Or wonder where you could find a rest room? Morris provides an astonishing array of information about parking, rest rooms, and more for coastal sites including state parks, wildlife refuges, historic sites, boat ramps and docks, fishing piers, lighthouses, ferries, museums, and more.