im in south central nc. tons of roads still closed around here. as you mentioned the 501 section and conway are in question day to day. even if open the flow of traffic from people returning to their homes in the myrtle beach and surrounding areas is pretty busy also. our nc dot website has pretty accurate up to date road closure info. people in our area are getting good results with the waze app on iphones for real time road info. someone mentioned contacting the park for their details. hope you can make it and its enjoyable. we have reservations there 1st part of january
avoid i-40 towards wilmington and the entire wilmington area in general at all costs. there are only a few ways to get into wilmington right now and the relief effort vechicles and power companies have to use the route to get in there. large areas of wilmington still have no power