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Camping in South Carolina

Camping in South Carolina (also known as “The Palmetto State”) offers comfortable year-round temperatures. South Carolina’s 47 state parks and over 3 million acres of beaches, mountains, forests, and lakes make for great hiking, canoeing, and fishing (saltwater and freshwater). Be sure to see the old-growth floodplain forest of Congaree National Park, family-friendly Myrtle Beach, charming and historic Charleston, and the scenic waterfalls and vistas of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Edisto Beach State Park

Ready for a break? Edisto State Beach Park is so relaxed it’s nicknamed “Edi-slow”. As part of the beautiful ACE Basin, visitors appreciate the area’s undeveloped nature and tranquility. Set up camp, and take a walk on the park’s trails. Or, go beachcombing for seashells and fossils while the Atlantic’s waves roll in.

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Huntington Beach State Park

Huntington Beach State Park is a 2500 acre coastal preserve and state park near Murrells Inlet, in Georgetown County, South Carolina. It has a large sandy beach, few beach-goers, and numerous wild birds to watch over the seasons.

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The Campground At James Island County Park

Edisto Island is one of South Carolina's Sea Islands, the larger part of which lies in Charleston County, with its southern tip in Colleton County. Edisto Beach is in Colleton County, and the Charleston County part of the island is unincorporated. The island, the town, and the Edisto River are named after the historic Edistow people, a Native American sub-tribe of the Cusabo Indians, who inhabi...

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Hunting Island State Park

Hunting Island is a 5,000-acre (20 km2) secluded semitropical barrier island located 15 miles (24 km) east of Beaufort, South Carolina, United States in between Harbor Island and Fripp Island. Since 1935, it has been classified as a state park. It is the most-visited state park facility in South Carolina and is a part of the ACE Basin estuarine reserve area. Known for its natural environment...

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Devils Fork State Park

Devils Fork State Park is in northwestern South Carolina on the eastern edge of the Sumter National Forest at the edge of 7,500-acre (3,035 ha) Lake Jocassee. It is located three miles (5 km) off SC 11, the Cherokee Scenic Highway, near the town of Salem, South Carolina. The park offers hiking, camping (including several paddle-in primitive sites), canoeing and kayaking. The park is well known...

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Mile Creek County Park

Lake Keowee is a man-made reservoir in the United States in the state of South Carolina. It was developed to serve the needs of power utility Duke Energy and public recreational purposes. It is approximately 26 miles (42 km) long, 3 miles (4.8 km) wide, with an average depth of 54 feet (16 m), and a shoreline measured at 300 miles (480 km) in total, and is approximately 800 feet (240 m) above s...

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Myrtle Beach State Park

Myrtle Beach is a resort city on the East Coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina. It is located in the center of a long and continuous 60-mile (97 km) stretch of beach known as the "Grand Strand” in the northeastern part of the state. Its year-round population was 35,682 as of the 2020 census, making it the 13th-most populous city in South Carolina.Myrtle Beach is one of the...

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J Strom Thurmond Lake

Lake Strom Thurmond, officially designated J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir at the federal level, and Clarks Hill Lake by the state of Georgia, is a man-made reservoir at the border between the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina in the Savannah River Basin.

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