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Salter Path North Carolina Map

Explore Salter Path, North Carolina, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Salter Path, North Carolina

How to Use This Salter Path, North Carolina Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Salter Path, North Carolina. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of North Carolina or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Salter Path.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Salter Path
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Carteret County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	34.688495
Longitude	-76.886051
Population	680
Density	55.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	28575
Area Code	910
County Seat	Beaufort

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About Salter Path, North Carolina

Salter Path is a locality in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 680. The population density is 55.0 people per km². Salter Path is located at 34.6885°N, 76.8861°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28575.

Salter Path stretches across a narrow sliver of land, defined by the relentless meeting of wind and salt-sprayed sand where the Atlantic Ocean beats a rhythmic, percussive pulse against the dunes. It lies 13.2 miles south of Havelock, NC (from Havelock, NC: bearing 176°T), and is situated 9.4 miles west-southwest of Morehead City. The horizon here is an unending line of shifting blue, broken only by the distant, low-slung silhouette of the Dog Islands that drift like anchored ships in the surf. Inland, the landscape softens into the maritime thickets of Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area, where the air grows heavy with the scent of pine and humid, sun-warmed earth. While the distant Davis Ridge remains a mythic, invisible spine far to the west, the immediate geography of Salter Path is shaped by the tidal reach of Gales Creek, which pulls at the edges of the marshland with a quiet, persistent gravity.

Generations of families have anchored their lives to the water here, transforming a once-isolated strip of sand into a place defined by the resilience of those who harvested the bounty of the sea. The economy of Salter Path remains tethered to the tides, moving in tandem with the seasonal ebb and flow of visitors who come to walk the shoreline or venture toward the quiet, freshwater depths of Patsy Pond. Beyond the reach of the distant Croatan National Forest, the character of the place is marked by a deliberate, unadorned simplicity, where the architecture of life is built to withstand the gale and the salt. It is a strip of earth that demands a particular kind of patience, where the light at dusk turns the sand to bruised copper and the Atlantic Ocean seems to hold the entire world in a slow, steady inhale.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area (State Park) — 2.4 mi, 083° E
Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area Dedicated Nature Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 2.4 mi, 081° E
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust - Gales Creek Preserve at Camp Sam Hatcher (Conservation Area) — 3.3 mi, 338° N
Croatan National Forest (National Forest) — 3.6 mi, 317° NW · 162k acres
Croatan Game Land (Marine Protected Area) — 3.9 mi, 357° N
Atlantic Station Cinema (Cinema) — 7.5 mi, 083° E
Battle Works - Tactical Laser Tag (Attraction) — 7.5 mi, 083° E
Carteret County Museum of History (Museum) — 7.6 mi, 072° E
North Carolina Coastal Federation Preserve (Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 083° E
Pocosin Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 8.1 mi, 326° NW · 12k acres
Emerald Plantation Cinema 4 (Cinema) — 9.4 mi, 259° W
Carteret County Historical Society (Museum) — 9.9 mi, 076° E
Big Rock (Monument) — 10.1 mi, 077° E
Morehead City Waterfront (Attraction) — 10.2 mi, 077° E
Golfin Dolphin Golf Plane (Attraction) — 10.3 mi, 273° W
Fort Macon State Park (State Park) — 10.4 mi, 086° E
Carteret County Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 12.0 mi, 059° NE
North Carolina Safe Harbor Agreement - Red-cockaded Woodpecker (State Conservation Area) — 12.3 mi, 342° N
Cape Lookout National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 12.5 mi, 090° E · 41k acres
Michael John Smith (Monument) — 12.7 mi, 081° E
Lookout Cruises (Attraction) — 12.8 mi, 081° E
Sheep Ridge Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 15.0 mi, 332° NW · 9,315 acres
Blackbeard (Public Artwork) — 19.5 mi, 072° E
1812 Lighthouse Foundation Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 21.1 mi, 102° E
New Bern Civil War Battlefield Park (Registered Battlefield) — 25.9 mi, 344° N
Oriental's History Museum (Museum) — 26.0 mi, 025° NE
Spider Lady (Monument) — 29.9 mi, 343° N
New Bern Firemen's Museum (Museum) — 30.3 mi, 343° N
Zing Zumm (Museum) — 30.8 mi, 278° W
MCAS New River Theater (Theatre) — 31.8 mi, 274° W

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