Manteo is on Roanoke Island right before you hit the Outer Banks. The mileage is actually from the TN border to Whalebone Junction where US64 ends and you take NC12, either north to Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk and beyond to the VA border, or south to Oregon Inlet, Pea Island, Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Frisco, Buxton, Avon, Hatteras Village and via ferry to Ocracoke which is the last inhabited island in the chain.
Thanks, I just looked it up. Looks like a place I wouldn’t want to be, in hurricane season.
1600 feet — in the Watauga valley —is a better altitude for me.