Warning: This article contains spoilers for Outer Banks Season 4!
Outer Banks Highlights local North Carolina history and culture through its swashbuckling teenage main characters, but it was Filmed largely in South Carolina. this season, Outer Banks takes viewers through a deep dive into the legend of Blackbird, which details a real-life pirate who was killed near Ocracoke Island in 1718. Despite the show’s North Carolina roots, Many of the show’s iconic swamp scenes and more were shot in South Carolina.
Since season 1 of Outer BanksThe show has incorporated ties to North Carolina, through the characters’ families, local businesses, and more. This season brought filming to the actual Outer Banks of North Carolina, with a number of beach scenes shot at the Fort Fisher State Recreation Area in North Carolina. However, a number of Outer Banks Treasure hunting scenes were filmed in South Carolina once again.
Poguelandia 2.0
The Pogues’ commune in season 4 was shot near Charleston
Poguelandia 2.0 in season 4 of Outer Banks was shot near Charleston, South Carolina. The surf shop was built by the cast and crew, including series star Chase Stokes (via Netflix). While the structure was built for the show, surf and bait shops were common local businesses for fishermen across the Carolinas.
After the Pogues make their way home to Kildare Island with the gold they found in El Dorado, they find their treasure worth over $1 million. With their sudden wealth, the main working-class group uses their money to lift themselves out of their struggles. The group purchases JJ’s foreclosed childhood home, and builds a surf and bait shop along the pier. The house and surf shop property is dubbed “Poguelandia 2.0” to mirror the deserted island the group began season 3 of Outer Banks Stranded on.
The communal living situation also boasts a herb garden. Poguelandia 2.0 also becomes the solution to John B.’s (Chase Stokes) homelessness, after he lost his father Big John Routledge (Charles Halford) in El Dorado and his home was burned down by Rafe Cameron (Drew Starkey) in season 3.
The enduro race
The racing episode took the crew on a rare trip to film in North Carolina
The enduro bike race was filmed at Cure Beach at Fort Fisher State Recreation Area in North Carolina. JJ Maybank (Rudy Pankow) begs the group’s last piece of gold so he can win the dirt bike race against the rich kooks, and ultimately loses in part due to his bike’s crude mechanics.
While the race starts and ends on the North Carolina coast, the scenes filmed in the woods were shot on Copperhead Ranch in Rocky Point, North Carolina. The race ends in JJ losing the group’s last bit of wealth to Tapper Thornton (Austin North) of the rival Kook gang, placing them in the position of potentially losing their land.
Blackstone Manor
Wes Genrette’s ancestral home was filmed in South Carolina
The mysterious Blackstone Manor, where the wealthy but haunted Wes Genrette (David Jensen) lives on land gifted to his family by the British Crown centuries before, was shot in Charleston, South Carolina. The actual house is the admiral’s house in Quarter G of Charleston, and is a real historical landmark.
Genrette reveals to the Pogues that he fears his family is cursed, as his ancestors killed the legendary pirate Blackbeard nearby. Members of the family face sudden death immediately after seeing the ghost of Blackbeard’s wife, Elizabeth Teach, who was buried without her precious amulet. It is lost in the shipwreck among the rest of Blackbeard’s treasure, which Genrete enlists the Pogues to find. The amulet and Blackbeard’s treasure are the main hunt of Outer Banks Season 4.
Kildare Hospital
The hyperbaric chambers that Kiara and JJ were placed in were filmed at a Charleston Area Hospital.
After an altercation ensues underwater in pursuit of Blackbeard’s treasure, JJ and Kiara Carrera (Madison Bailey) are hospitalized for “the bends,” slang for decompression sickness, a phenomenon in which dissolved gases (usually, nitrogen) form bubbles in the bloodstream and tissues. (via National Institute of Health). To treat decompression sickness, the pair were placed in a hyperbaric chamber for hours.
The hospital where the hyperbaric chamber scenes were filmed is located in May Forest State Park in Charleston, South Carolina. The hospital is located close to where Poguelandia and a number of other scenes in season 4 were shot, adding realism to this season’s urgent driving scenes.
Charleston Church
The Pogues go to Charleston to look for clues about Blackbeard
The Pogues make their way to Charleston in season 4 of Outer Banks In search of Blackbeard’s ultimate treasure, the Blue Crown. As Charleston is the site of a number of historical landmarks associated with both Blackbeard and Colonial America, Pope Hayward’s (Jonathan Daviss) research takes the group south.
The catacomb in which Sarah (Madeline Kline) and Pope are trapped in pursuit of Blackbeard’s clues was filmed in the Old Exchange Building (Provost) in Charleston. The earlier interior scenes in which Sarah and Cleo (Carlasia Grant) attempt to distract the priest from Pope’s prodding are shot in. Unitarian Church, with the exterior graveyard shots of John B bumping into his ancestor’s grave were shot at Circular Congregational Church. All of these Outer Banks Locations are close to each other in Charleston, South Carolina.
Sources: Netflix, National Institute of Health
Outer Banks follows a group of teenagers in the Outer Banks of North Carolina as they uncover a legendary treasure linked to the mysterious disappearance of the group leader’s father, leading to a series of dangerous and exciting adventures. Adventures.