---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459g"
heading: "Cape Lookout National Seashore; purposes; authorization for establishment; description of area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459g"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459g. Cape Lookout National Seashore; purposes; authorization for establishment; description of area


In order to [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) for public use and enjoyment an [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of North Carolina possessing outstanding natural and recreational values, there is hereby authorized to be established the Cape Lookout National Seashore (hereinafter referred to as “seashore”), which shall comprise the lands and adjoining marshlands and waters on the outer banks of Carteret County, North Carolina, between Ocracoke Inlet and Beaufort Inlet, as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Boundary [Map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1), Cape Lookout National Seashore”, dated March 1974, and numbered 623–20,009, which is on file in the Office of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, Department of the Interior.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–366, § 1, Mar. 10, 1966, 80 Stat. 33; Pub. L. 93–477, title IV, § 406(1), Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1448.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1974—Pub. L. 93–477 substituted “ ‘Boundary Map, Cape Lookout National Seashore’, dated March 1974, and numbered 623–20,009” for “ ‘Proposed Boundaries—Proposed Cape Lookout National Seashore’, dated April 1964, and numbered NS–CL–7101–B”, and struck out proviso relating to certain property not to be included in seashore.