Located in the town of Wrightsville Beach, Wrightsville Beach is a four-mile-long beach with light brown sand and a rocky jetty at its southern end. The northern part of this beach is known as North Wrightsville Beach. The beach has two piers – one of them is a 1,200-feet-long concrete pier named Johnnie Mercer’s Fishing Pier and the other one is the 475-feet-long Crystal Pier. This beach was listed as one of the “25 Best Beaches in the USA” by the Travel+Leisure magazine. It was also listed as one of the best beaches in North Carolina by the Travel Channel, and is also a favorite of Randall Kaplan, the world’s foremost beach expert who is known as Mr. Beach.
