Belfast Wildlife Management Area Situated along a busy highway connecting Laurens and Newberry, Belfast Wildlife Management Area stands as a testimonial to how people and nature can both thrive together and how through careful management a natural environment can be created that will last for generations. Best described as a hybrid space, Belfast WMA is… Continue reading Belfast Wildlife Management Area
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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
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
Issaqueena Falls
Issaqueena Falls Visiting Issaqueena Falls Not every waterfall has a story to tell, but when they do, it’s usually a humdinger. The legend of Issaqueena Falls is no different filled with forbidden love and adventure culminating in a daring escape. (For more about the legend click here). Issaqueena Falls is in the same park as… Continue reading Issaqueena Falls
Campbell Covered Bridge
Campbell’s Covered Bridge Today, as you drive along Highway 11 in northwestern South Carolina, it’s hard to imagine that not too long ago, this entire region was an isolated frontier with only a few sparsely populated settlements scattered across the landscape. Referred to as the Dark Corner due to its isolation, the area was in… Continue reading Campbell Covered Bridge
Landsford Canal State Park
Landsford Canal State Park For details on our visit check out our Landsford Canal State Park Field Report Once part of an ambitious plan to connect Charlotte North Carolina to the port of Charleston via the Catawba and Wateree River, the ruins of Landsford Canal stand alone as the last of the great Catawba River… Continue reading Landsford Canal State Park
Chester State Park
Chester State Park For details on our visit check out our Chester State Park Field Report Not far outside the little rural town of Chester SC, you’ll find one of South Carolina’s lesser known state parks. Although Chester State Park isn’t as well known it boasts some of the nicest day use amenities in the… Continue reading Chester State Park