Emerald Isle Marathon Half Marathon & 5k

From there, the course heads northeast along Emerald Drive for the first 5 1/2 miles of the race, taking runners past the Emerald Isle Town Hall, all the way up to the first turn, on Connie Street.
That brings runners around to Ocean Drive, which takes them past beach home after beach home for the next 3 1/2 miles, back into the town of Emerald Isle, where they’ll turn next once Ocean Drive reaches Jackson Avenue.
The next mile or so brings runners across the width of the island to Sound Drive, where they’ll turn left and begin a nearly two-mile-long stretch along the waters of the Bogue Sound, which separates the barrier island known as the Bogue Banks — home to Emerald Isle as well as Salter Path, Pine Knoll Shores and Atlantic Beach — from the North Carolina mainland.
Once they reach the turn from Sound Drive onto Old Ferry Road, runners then head south along Old Ferry to Reed Drive, and begin the final mile or so of the race along Reed to Islander Drive, where they turn in to head south toward the beach and cross the finish line back at the hotel where they started.