From the sand to your driveway…
$325 a vehicle · Five and a half hours behind the wheel
The day
There is no pavement north of Corolla. Homes in Carova are reached over the sand, and the wild horses graze the dunes. Half a day here, with the people who’ll ride along every day, is long enough to know.
The run from the end of North Carolina Highway 12, the road up the Outer Banks, onto the sand in Corolla.
At 18–20 psi the tires spread out and float. You feel it the moment you hit the sand.
Deep, dry sand, where four-wheel drive earns its keep.
A smoother ride on firm sand, best near low tide.
How it rides over tire ruts, and whether anyone in the back seat notices.
Load the chairs, the cooler and the fishing rods, and see how it all fits.
Your day
Keys at the oceanfront Hilton Garden Inn in Kitty Hawk, then North Carolina Highway 12 north through Duck and Corolla, and sand all the way to the Virginia line.
Good to know
The vehicles
Every one is a current model year, supplied by one of our dealers, with one No-Haggle Price per trim set before you book.
The heavy-duty Ram with a bench up front, so the whole family rides along: 34-inch Goodyear DuraTrac all-terrains, Bilstein shocks and the 6.4-liter HEMI V8.
The Trail Boss with a bench up front, so six ride along: a two-inch factory lift, 32-inch mud-terrain tires and room in the bed for bikes, boards and the big cooler.
Ford’s heavy-duty Super Duty with the Tremor package: 35-inch tires, a locking rear differential and a bench up front, so six ride along.
The beach classic: solid axles and a top that opens. The Willys trim comes from the factory ready for sand.
Ford named a Bronco trim after this place. Drive the Outer Banks on the Outer Banks.
A Wrangler with a pickup bed, the only pickup with a top that opens.
Read how they feel, side by side, starting with Bronco vs. Wrangler. Then book both and swap at the Virginia line.
Request your dateHow it works
Online, any month of the year. Pick one vehicle, or two if you bring a second driver. License, insurance and the agreement are all done online.
A short walk-around at the Hilton Garden Inn in Kitty Hawk, and you’re off.
About three hours on the Carova sand, with nobody riding along.
After your experience, our dealer for that brand emails you a numbered certificate with your No-Haggle Price. Take your time. When you’re ready, say yes.
Call the one contact named on your certificate. That person places your factory order at the No-Haggle Price and handles the paperwork and financing. Navy Federal or PenFed member? Bring your pre-approval.
Not the one? You found out on the sand, not after you bought it.
Every step, in detail: from building yours online to delivery day.
Built to order
A dealer’s lot holds what the factory sent: the colors and packages that sell fastest. Here you order yours down to the color, the top, the axle, the tires and the options, in your name, and the dealer delivers to your door. Live farther away? A dealer near your home hands you the keys.
The program is built for buyers from up north: Virginia, Washington, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. Drive on your beach week, and your new 4x4 comes home to you.
Buyer’s remorse comes from settling for the one that happened to be there.
If you would rather not wait
Say so when you order. If a matching build is already on its way to another dealer, the ordering store can trade for it and cut the wait by weeks.
Why the price is better
A dealer’s price carries the cost of selling: the ads, the salesperson’s afternoon, the hour at the desk, and the shoppers who leave to look at the other brand. You skip all of that. You come back from the beach knowing whether it’s the one, and the price reflects it.
Take the time. Drive it on the beach, then drive another. Pick every option and decide when you’re ready. You’ve done your homework, and you’ve earned the best price possible: no haggling, no salesperson. Order it exactly the way you want it. Don’t settle.
You never shop the dealer. We already did: one store per brand, which agreed to these terms in writing before a single driver was sent its way. A dealer that falls short comes off the program.
The Carolina Promise
An enjoyable, stress-free experience and one upfront best price, in writing. We don’t promise to be the cheapest. We promise the easiest, most enjoyable way to buy a vehicle: no haggling and no salesperson.
Take your time, order it your way, and get the best price possible.
See what you’ll receive
This is the certificate every driver gets by email. The amounts here are blank; yours carries the real numbers from our dealer.
Every line is printed, so you can hold it up against any other quote. Factory cash is whatever the manufacturer offers the day you order: see Jeep, Ram, Ford and Chevrolet.
| Sticker price | $ —— |
| Factory cash | − $ —— |
| The dealer’s discount | − $ —— |
| Your No-Haggle Price | $ —— |
| You save | $ —— |
| Delivery fee, if any | $ —— |
| Tax, title, tags and documentation fee | $ —— |
| Out the door | $ —— |
Your No-Haggle Price for this build. Factory incentives are whatever the manufacturer offers the day you order.
Before you book
Everything is checked online before you arrive, so the hotel pickup is quick.
OffRoad.guide is operated by Beach 4x4 of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, six years on this beach. The photos our customers post tell it better than we can.
Questions
No. Not in the seat, not at the hotel, not on the phone. Nobody rides along and nobody hurries you, and the dealer calls only if you ask. If you decide to buy, you call the one program contact named on your certificate; that person handles the paperwork, not a sales pitch.
Yes. Every vehicle seats at least five. Bring car seats for little ones.
Yes. Bring a second driver, 25 or older, and take two up the beach. Swap at the Virginia line, so you each drive both. Read how they compare first.
That’s fine. The walk-around at pickup covers four-wheel drive and airing down, and the beach drives best near low tide. Our Outer Banks beach driving guide covers the rest.
You’re unlikely to. You’re in the off-road version, with the tires aired down to 18–20 psi so they float on soft sand, and the walk-around at pickup shows you how to use the four-wheel drive. You’re far more likely to be the one pulling someone else out. Every vehicle carries recovery gear: a tow rope, a shovel and an air pump. And you’re not alone out there. We’re a phone call away the whole time.
The experience goes ahead. Rain doesn’t slow anything down: wet sand packs firmer and drives better, and the wild horses don’t mind it either.
Strong wind can push the water up the beach and leave no room to drive. If that happens, it’s your choice: take your five and a half hours in the vehicle on the road that day, or move to another date.
We run only a few drives a day, so each date is held for you. Let us know at least 5 days before your date and we’ll move it to another date. After that, the date is missed, but you can still buy through us at a discount.
Yes. It is built for you. Families come to the Outer Banks from all over, many of them from Virginia, Washington, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. Drive it on your beach week, then your vehicle comes home to you: delivered to your door, or handed over by a dealer near your home, and titled and registered in your own state.
Bring it along. We look it over while you are on the beach, and a written offer for it arrives with your price. If you buy, your current vehicle leaves on the same trip that brings the new one to your door, so you are never without a car. The offer holds until delivery as long as the mileage and condition match, and your loan payoff and title are handled at the handoff. Live in Virginia? Virginia charges its 4.15% sales tax on the full price of the new vehicle whether you trade or not, so selling yours this way costs you nothing in tax.
No. Within the dealer’s own delivery area, it delivers to your door. Beyond that, your vehicle ships to a dealer near your home, which hands over the keys and handles your title and tags for a flat fee that your dealer arranges before the certificate is issued and prints on it. The sale is still with the dealer on your certificate, at the No-Haggle Price.
No. The program is built around the factory order. You drive the off-road trim on the beach, then order the trim you want in the color and with the options you want, at the No-Haggle Price. If the ordering store happens to have your exact build in stock, you can take that instead.
Weeks to a few months, depending on the brand and the plant. It is ordered in your name, and you hear from us the same day every time the status changes. If you would rather not wait, say so when you order and the ordering store will trade for a matching build already on its way to another dealer, if there is one.
Ask us. The vehicles on the beach belong to our dealers, so it is the dealer’s call. When the dealer for that brand agrees, you can buy the one you drove instead of ordering one.
No. If none of them is right, no hard feelings. You still had half a day on the beach.
Because you’ve done your homework. Your license and insurance were checked before you arrived, and you decided on the sand. The dealer skips the ads, the salesperson’s afternoon and the shoppers who leave to look at the other brand, so it can sell for less and still come out ahead. The price is set before you book and is the same for every program driver.
We don’t promise to be the cheapest. We promise one upfront best price for the exact build you chose, no haggling and no salesperson. Take it home, compare all you like, and say yes when you’re ready. You’ve done your homework, so you’ve earned the best price possible.
Your own full-coverage policy, the same as a rental, which is why every driver needs one. You will have it anyway the day you take delivery of a new vehicle. Policies written in North Carolina and Virginia cover driving on the beach; if yours is from another state, check with your insurer before you book. You can also buy a collision damage waiver at booking. It costs extra, because the drive goes off-road.
One of ours: the store for that brand that agreed to our terms before the first driver was sent its way. You’ll have the store’s name, your one contact there and the No-Haggle Price in writing before you decide anything. What our dealers agree to.
No. The dealer sets one price for program drivers before you ever book. There is nothing to negotiate.
After the experience. Our dealer for that brand emails you a numbered certificate with its out-the-door price. It isn’t in any ad or on this site: the drive is what gets it, the way a membership gets the Costco price.
Everything you pay to drive it home: the vehicle, the dealer’s fees, and your state’s tax and tags. Nothing gets added at the desk.
One price for the vehicle, the same for every program driver, and nothing to negotiate. If you’ve bought through the Costco Auto Program or a credit union’s car buying service, it’s that kind of price, without the membership. How those programs work, and how this is different.
No. OffRoad.guide isn’t connected to Costco, USAA, AAA or any buying service, and there’s nothing to join.
Any time of year. Drives run all year, two a day at most, with shorter days in winter. Pick your date and vehicle below. First-season dates go in the order requests come in, and we email you to confirm yours.
$325 for each vehicle you drive.
First-season dates · $325 a vehicle · All year
A good day. No obligation to buy.
You’re paying $325 for the experience, not committing to buy a vehicle. Spend the day driving, talk it over with the person you brought, and decide in your own time. Your written price arrives by email, so go home and take your time. If it isn’t right, simply hand back the keys.
What’s included
Rain or shine. Wet sand packs firmer and drives better. If wind leaves no room on the beach, it’s your choice: your hours on the road that day, or another date. Need a different date? Tell us at least 5 days ahead and we’ll move it.
If it is the one: one upfront best price, in writing. Order it exactly the way you want it. Don’t settle.
Bring your spouse or partner along: five and a half hours to talk it over, with no salesperson anywhere. You can both drive, as long as each of you is 25 or older, licensed and insured, and checked online before the day.
We email you to confirm your date, with the booking link for your $325 and the online license and insurance check. Nothing is charged until your date is confirmed. Already know the build you want? Send us your build. Questions? Email hello@offroad.guide; answers come back the same day.
Beach 4x4 rents 4x4s for the Corolla and Carova beach, open all year, seven days a week.