Kings Mountain State Park Located in northern South Carolina just a short drive from the site of the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain, you’ll find one of South Carolina’s 16 State Parks built during the Great Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps also known as Roosevelt’s Tree Army. Visiting Kings Mountain State Park Renowned as… Continue reading Kings Mountain State Park
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Kings Mountain National Military Park
Kings Mountain National Military Park Visiting Kings Mountain National Military Park Kings Mountain National Military Park commemorates the 1780 battle that took place here with not just a visitor center and Battlefield Trail but numerous monuments and markers including one of the oldest Revolutionary Way memorials placed here on July 4, 1815. The visitor center… Continue reading Kings Mountain National Military Park
High Falls
High Falls at DuPont State Forest For details on our visit check out our High Falls in Dupont State Forest Field Report. Towering 120 feet over the river below, Dupont Forest’s High Falls is one of the most impressive and magnificent waterfalls in North Carolina as well as part of a trio of waterfalls along… Continue reading High Falls
Pearson’s Falls
Pearson’s Falls Visiting Pearson’s Falls Temporarily Closed due to Hurricane HeleneVisit https://www.pearsonsfalls.org/helene-updates for latest information. Once in the parking lot, you’ll take a short ¼ mile trail along the banks of Colt Creek to reach the base of the falls. It’s a short and easy walk, but because it is an unpaved trail, it may… Continue reading Pearson’s Falls
Hagood Mill Historic Site
Hagood Mill Historic Site Most people just call it Hagood Mill, but the historic site is so much more. Located just off Highway 178 in Pickens County, South Carolina, this historic site encompass more than just the historic water powered grist mill it’s named after, but a number of historic cabins with furnished interiors, historic… Continue reading Hagood Mill Historic Site
Camden Revolutionary War Site SC
Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site After it’s capture in 1780, Camden became one of the most important hubs of the British war effort in the southern states. Because of it’s location along the Wateree River, it was the ideal spot for a supply post directing equipment and soldiers throughout the Carolina back country. Along with… Continue reading Camden Revolutionary War Site SC
Congaree National Park
Congaree National Park Visiting Congaree National Park Travel just 20 miles south of Columbia, SC you’ll enter a world so foreign from our modern life that you’d be excused if you felt like you traveled through time back into our distant primordial past. Congaree Nation Park is that impressive. Click Here for More About the… Continue reading Congaree National Park
Caesars Head
Caesars Head State Park Visiting Caesars 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. This rock formation described by Robert Mills, prominent SC architect and designer of the Washington Monument, as a “mass of granite, rising from… Continue reading Caesars Head
Cradle of Forestry in America
Cradle of Forestry in America Established in Pisgah Forest just south of Asheville, North Carolina along Hwy 276, the Cradle of Forestry in America chronicles the story of the men who helped bring modern forestry practices to the United States and how their efforts resurrected Pisgah Forest from the ruin of deforestation and over farming.… Continue reading Cradle of Forestry in America
Andrew Jackson State Park
Andrew Jackson State Park Located squarely in the Waxhaws region of South Carolina, Andrew Jackson State Park is built on the site of the James Crawford Plantation where Jackson, America’s seventh president, is known as a fact to have grown up and where he may have been born. Both Carolinas claim Andrew Jackson as a… Continue reading Andrew Jackson State Park