51 state parks, historic sites and recreation areas in South Carolina

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• Aiken State ParkFour fishing lakes and three public artesian wells sit along the South Fork of the Edisto, where a 1.7-mile…
• Andrew Jackson State ParkThe boyhood country of the seventh president, with a museum of Revolutionary War artifacts, Anna Hyatt…
• Baker Creek State ParkTen miles of rolling loop trail through oak and pine woodland, and two boat ramps onto 71,100-acre Lake…
• Barnwell State ParkThree small lakes full of crappie, bream, bass and catfish, ringed by two nature trails and the tiered…
• Battle of Musgrove Mill State Historic SiteThe battlefield where Patriot militia beat a much larger Loyalist and Provincial force on 19 August 1780…
• Battle of Rivers Bridge State Historic SiteThe only preserved Civil War battlefield in the South Carolina park system, where Confederate troops made one…
• Black River State ParkSouth Carolina's first linear park, protecting 9,000 acres and 70 miles of water trail along the…
• Caesars Head State ParkAn overlook 3,208 feet up the Blue Ridge Escarpment, with more than 60 miles of trail reaching 420-foot Raven…
• Calhoun Falls State ParkDirect access to 26,650-acre Lake Russell, with a 36-slip marina, a swimming area and 86 standard campsites…
• Charles Towne Landing State Historic SiteThe site of South Carolina's first permanent European settlement, founded in 1670, with a twelve-room exhibit…
• Cheraw State ParkLongleaf pine forest around 360-acre Lake Juniper, home to the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, plus an…
• Chester State ParkA CCC boathouse stands out over 160-acre Lake View, where a 472-foot bridge crosses the water and bald eagles…
• Colleton State ParkThirty-five acres on the Edisto, one of the longest free-flowing blackwater rivers in the country, and the…
• Colonial Dorchester State Historic SiteThe remains of a trading town settled on the Ashley River in 1697: a brick bell tower added in 1751, a fort…
• Croft State ParkSeven thousand acres of wooded ridge five miles from downtown Spartanburg, once an Army infantry training…
• Devils Fork State ParkThe only public access to Lake Jocassee, a cold, clear mountain reservoir fed by four streams and ringed by…
• Dreher Island State ParkThree islands reaching into 50,000-acre Lake Murray, half an hour from Columbia, with three boat ramps, five…
• Edisto Beach State ParkA mile and a half of shell-strewn beach on the edge of the ACE Basin, with four miles of…
• Givhans Ferry State ParkLimestone bluffs over the Edisto River, protected as a Heritage Trust site, at the end of the 23-mile paddle…
• Goodale State ParkA Civil War-era mill pond of 140 acres, rimmed with cypress and stocked with bass, bream and catfish, plus a…
• H. Cooper Black Jr. Memorial Field Trial and Recreation AreaSeven thousand acres of longleaf pine and open field laid out for field trials and retriever competitions…
• Hamilton Branch State ParkA wooded peninsula on 71,100-acre Lake Thurmond, the second largest lake east of the Mississippi, with 150…
• Hampton Plantation State Historic SiteA colonial rice plantation on Wambaw Creek in the Santee Delta, interpreting slavery and rice cultivation…
• Hickory Knob State Resort ParkA full-service lakeside resort park on Lake Thurmond: 76 lodge rooms, a restaurant, an 18-hole championship…
• Hunting Island State ParkFive miles of beach, salt marsh and maritime forest on the most visited park in the state, with a saltwater…
• Huntington Beach State ParkThree miles of beach backed by salt marsh that has recorded more than 300 bird species, giving the park a…
• Jones Gap State ParkA deep mountain cove on the Middle Saluda, South Carolina's first state-designated scenic river, with trails…
• Keowee-Toxaway State ParkRock outcrops and 5.5 miles of trail above 18,500-acre Lake Keowee, with a canoe and kayak launch, a…
• Kings Mountain State ParkA replica 19th-century yeoman farm with cotton gin and blacksmith shop, two CCC-built lakes, and 30 miles of…
• Lake Greenwood State ParkA 4.2-mile shoreline trail and 125 paved campsites on 11,400-acre Lake Greenwood, with two boat ramps and a…
• Lake Hartwell State ParkJust off I-85 at the Georgia line, with 109 paved campsites, eight camper cabins and a 140-foot pier on…
• Lake Warren State ParkTwo hundred acres of lake with two fishing piers and rental jon boats, set in Lowcountry floodplain forest…
• Lake Wateree State ParkA two-lane ramp with in-water refueling and a tackle shop make this the working end of 13,800-acre Lake…
• Landsford Canal State ParkThe well-preserved remains of the canal that made the Catawba River navigable from 1820 to 1835, and the…
• Lee State ParkBottomland hardwood floodplain along the state scenic Lynches River, where four artesian wells drilled by the…
• Little Pee Dee State ParkA quiet Sandhills park on 54-acre Lake Norton, with a Carolina bay and the sand rim of an ancient coastline…
• May Forest State ParkTwenty-three acres on Charleston Harbor with 756 feet of shoreline, a moss-draped entrance drive and a…
• Myrtle Beach State ParkThe first park to open in South Carolina, in 1936, holding a mile of undeveloped beach and maritime forest in…
• Oconee State ParkA CCC mountain park with 19 original cabins, an old-fashioned swimming hole and the only mini-golf course in…
• Oconee Station State Historic SiteA stone blockhouse used as a militia outpost in the 1790s, and the William Richards House beside it, on 210…
• Paris Mountain State ParkA monadnock — a mountain rising out of otherwise flat land — minutes from downtown Greenville, with 17 miles…
• Pine Island State ParkOne of South Carolina's newest parks: 27 lakefront acres on Lake Murray reached by a narrow causeway, with a…
• Poinsett State ParkWhere the Sandhills meet the coastal plain, hilly enough to be called the mountains of the Midlands, with 25…
• Redcliffe Plantation State Historic SiteThe 1859 house of James Henry Hammond, interpreted alongside the two 1857 cabins where enslaved families…
• Rose Hill Plantation State Historic SiteThe mansion of William Henry Gist, the governor who pressed South Carolina toward secession, with an original…
• Sadlers Creek State ParkA peninsula reaching into Lake Hartwell, with 51 standard campsites, two boat ramps and a hundred-foot pier…
• Santee State ParkTen of the park's thirty cabins stand on a pier out over Lake Marion, the largest lake in South Carolina…
• Sesquicentennial State ParkFourteen hundred acres of sandhills pine inside Columbia, with a 30-acre lake, twelve miles of hiking and…
• St. Phillips IslandA 4,680-acre barrier island reachable only by boat, designated a National Natural Landmark, with eight miles…
• Table Rock State ParkA hard climb up Table Rock Mountain, two lakes for paddling and fishing, and an old-fashioned swimming hole…
• Woods Bay State ParkOne of the last large Carolina bays left on the coastal plain, crossed by a 1,150-foot boardwalk over…

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• Alabama22
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• New Mexico35
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• Oklahoma38
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• Texas93
• Utah46
• Virginia44
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