Ultimately, though, Outer Banks is filmed in Charleston, South Carolina. Residents may recognize locations like Shem Creek and the Old Village in Mount Pleasant, James Island, Johns Island, McClellanville, Kiawah Island, Charleston Harbor and the Morris Island Lighthouse.
The show wasn’t filmed in the real Outer Banks because of the “bathroom bill” in North Carolina. Instead, it was filmed in and around Charleston, South Carolina. The show incorporates real Charleston names, including Vanderhorst, Heyward, and Rutledge.
The real Kildare County Island location. The Outer Banks (aka OBX) are barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina, and also the name of the Netflix sun-kissed adventure thriller. However, all the filming took place in and around Charleston in South Carolina. The action is set in the fictional town of Kildare.
The series takes place in North Carolina, but you’ll find the sets a little farther south. Arguably, the most captivating part of Netflix’s smash-hit Outer Banks isn’t the case of John B’s missing father, or the millions in sunken treasure, or even any of the (many) romances; it’s the setting itself.
Netflix’s Outer Banks, which is technically set in the real Outer Banks in North Carolina, isn’t actually filmed there.
Following the compass clue, the Pogues visit the Redfield Lighthouse in the second episode. The scene was shot in the Hunting Island Lighthouse, located 20 miles east of Beaufort. Some scenes in Boneyard Beach were also filmed in this scenic natural Island State Park in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.
Where was Outer Banks filmed?
Though set in North Carolina, ‘Outer Banks’ was shot in South Carolina Netflix. Instead of shooting in North Carolina, Outer Banks was instead filed in Charleston, South Carolina. Speaking to Wilmington Star News in April 2020, Pate said: “When we wrote it, it was 100 percent Wilmington in our heads. We wanted to film it here.
The island at the heart of Outer Bank is a fictional one in North Carolina, the wealthy side of which is known as Figure 8 and the lower-class portion of which is The Cut—a location partly modeled on NC’s Snow’s Cut.
In January 2019, Netflix announced that it would not shoot Outer Banks, which was then known as OBX, in North Carolina . According to The Hollywood Reporter, this was in part due to the state’s House Bill 2. Known to many as “the bathroom bill,” the law required transgender people to use the restrooms that matched the sex written on their birth …
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