Open for comment · closes November 24
Review NC 12 realignment at Pea Island refuge visitor center
National Park Service · Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge
- What
- NCDOT wants to realign N.C. Highway 12 near the Pea Island refuge visitor center, and the public needs to weigh in on what it costs wildlife.
- Where
- Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center area, NC
- How much
- The highway corridor runs through Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge and Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
- By when
- Comments to National Park Service by November 24, 2026.Date from National Park Service PEPC project page ↗, read November 10, 2026.
What to ask forAll 3 points →
Please account for the footprint and long-term impacts of this infrastructure on public land.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the NPS Planning (PEPC) project page ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the project page names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- By whenNovember 24, 2026, from National Park Service PEPC project page, the document’s comment period ↗. Read November 10, 2026.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 10, 2026.
Two ways to be heard on this, and both count. Comment for the legal record, then call the members who answer to you.
Comment nowWhat to say
Make these points, in your own words
- I oppose this action as proposed, and I ask the agency to weigh the specific harms below.
- Please account for the footprint and long-term impacts of this infrastructure on public land.
- Please account for the impacts on fish, wildlife, and the habitat they depend on.
Name the place: this decision affects the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and the people who use and value it.
Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.
Affects public lands
NCDOT wants to realign N.C. Highway 12 near the Pea Island refuge visitor center, and the public needs to weigh in on what it costs wildlife.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
In the agency’s own words
Newsletter and FAQs for NCDOT Application to Realign NC Highway 12
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in North Carolina
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in North Carolina, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Appalachian Voices
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works North Carolina: 1 live federal case across all their work.
- Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works North Carolina: North Carolina is one of the 2 states they work in.
- Great Smoky Mountains Association
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works North Carolina: North Carolina is one of the 2 states they work in.
- North Carolina Outward Bound
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works North Carolina: North Carolina is one of the 4 states they work in.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
Who signs it
The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.
The ground
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
The photograph on this page: Wild turkey in hardwood forest. It’s the country this decision sits in, not the site itself. More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
No court case we track is over Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Who holds the vote
PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.
See how your members vote ↗Calling your two senators and your representative is the Call door on this page.
NPS PEPCWe track this on the agency’s own system of record, where most on-the-ground decisions live.
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