Tram Stop 8

Tram Stop 8 marks a stop along Back Road on the west side of Ocracoke village, within an easy walk of Silver Lake Harbor and Springer's Point Preserve — the maritime forest at the edge of the village long associated with Blackbeard's final battle in Ocracoke Inlet. The name points to a numbered tram line running through the neighborhood, the kind of low-key local transit that fits a village built for bikes, golf carts, and walking rather than heavy car traffic.

No phone number, website, or posted schedule is on file for this stop, so it's worth checking current tram signage or asking around once you're on the island rather than planning a pickup time in advance. That's typical for Ocracoke, which is reachable only by boat — the free NC ferry from Hatteras village, or the longer toll ferries from Cedar Island and Swan Quarter on the mainland — where getting your bearings on the ground counts for more than it does almost anywhere else on the Outer Banks.