Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Landsford Canal State Park in South Carolina. Landsford Canal History Along this rocky stretch of the Catawba River sits a tract of land that that has played a vital role in the lives of the surrounding people for over a thousand years.… Continue reading Landsford Canal State Park
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Lake Greenwood State Park
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Lake Greenwood State Park. Most State Parks have a story to tell, but few are as poignant as Lake Greenwood State Park’s story. It all starts even before you get to the entrance. Along the road leading into the park is an… Continue reading Lake Greenwood State Park
Kings Mountain State Park
NOTE: This Page is about the State Park – For the Nearby Revolutionary War Battle Ground Visit our Kings Mountain National Military Park Page Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Kings Mountain State Park. Not far from the site of the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain, you’ll find… Continue reading Kings Mountain State Park
Paris Mountain State Park
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Paris Mountain State Park in Greenville, SC. Located just a few miles outside of Greenville, South Carolina, Paris Mountain feels like it’s hundreds of miles away and offers a welcome escape from the traffic and congestion. The isolated peak rises above the… Continue reading Paris Mountain State Park
Crowders Mountain State Park
Click Here for everything you need to know to plan your visit to Crowders Mountain State Park in North Carolina. Crowders Mountain Before it Became a State Park Once marking the boundary between the hunting grounds of the Cherokee and the Catawba nations, the twin peaks of Crowders Mountain and Kings Pinnacle still tower above… Continue reading Crowders Mountain State Park
Musgrove Mill Battleground
Click Here for everything you need to know to visit Musgrove Mill Battleground in South Carolina. About the Battle of Musgrove Mill As you drive along Highway 56 between Spartanburg and Clinton, you may not know it, but you’ll pass within yards of the site of an important Patriot victory during the American Revolution. Just… Continue reading Musgrove Mill Battleground
Places to take Dad this Father’s Day
Places to take Dad this Father’s Day Still looking for something to do for Dad this Fathers Day? Better hurry up because Father’s day will be here sooner than you think. You could go with the old standby and get dad a new tie, or a new drill, or a new can of Simoniz, but… Continue reading Places to take Dad this Father’s Day
Chimney Rock State Park
Rising like a medieval guard tower, Chimney Rock keeps watch over Hickory Nut Gorge below. Passing between mountains on each side, the gorge for centuries was a reliable route from the highland regions in the north to the flatland in the south. Before it was the to Chimney Rock State Park tourist attraction and a… Continue reading Chimney Rock State Park
Caesars Head
About Caesar’s Head State Park The Cherokee and their ancestors where the first people to lay eyes on what we now call Caesar’s Head in northern Greenville County. Described by Robert Mills, prominent SC architect and designer of the Washington Monument, as a “mass of granite, rising from the vale, through which a rapid river… Continue reading Caesars Head
Andrew Jackson State Park
While Andrew Jackson’s actual place of birth remains a mystery, both South Carolina and North Carolina claim to be his birth state. North Carolina has erected a monument on one possible site of Jackson’s birth. While South Carolina has built a State Park with a museum, park lake, hiking trails, picnic area, and campground at… Continue reading Andrew Jackson State Park