park name edisto beach
SOUTH CAROLINA’S
PARK NAME EDISTO BEACH STATE PARK
Charles An oceanfront Towne campground Landing State Historic Site is back and on a palmetto-lined beach better The grand famed than for itsever. shelling is just one opening of renovated park highlight ofthe Edisto Beach State across Park. the Ashley River from downtown Charleston was held Only an hour from on Thursday, August 17, 2006. Charleston, the park also offers A state park since 1970, the site another campground deep in is where a ship full of British the maritime forest full of live settlers and their servants oaks and some of the state’s arrived from Barbados and tallest palmetto trees, as well established the first permanent as a row of comfortable cabins European colony in the nestled in the woods but with Carolinas in 1670. a front-row view of miles of A highlight of the 664-acre pristine marshland. park is the new Visitor Center, Edisto Beach State Park which includes extensive also offers the state’s longest interactive exhibits describing system of handicappedhow settlers, slaves, traders friendly hiking and biking trails, and Native Americans came including one leading to a together on this spot to forge mysterious, 4,000-year-old the beginnings of what would shellmidden alongside a become the plantation system secluded bend on a tidal creek. of the American South. The an a The park park also also has includes environmental full-scale replicaeducation trading ship, center, a “green” building protective palisades, and afull of exhibits highlight the garden thatthat includes crops natural history Edisto Island from that time, of a natural habitat and surrounding ACE Basin, zoo, the ongoing archaeological one of the nation’s largest activity, walking paths and full preserved estuaries. visitor amenities.
Charles Towne Counties: Colleton Landing State
Canoeing/Kayaking Hours /Admissions
Historic is located on Old Acreage:Site 1255 Town Road (S.C. 171) near Exit Pets: Pets are not allowed in the 216-A off Interstate 26. cabins or the cabin areas. Pets are Designation: Listed onoutdoor the allowed in most other
Education Office Hours: Center Daily 9am-5pm
national Register areas provided they are kept under Counties:restraint Charleston physical or on a leash not longer than Acreage: 664six feet. Admissions: $3.25/SC When & How$5/adult; Acquired: Reseniors; $3/1971 childfrom age 6-15; Free for ceived in the Tricenchildren 5 and younger. tennial Commission Driving Directions: Pets: Pets are not allowed in the park. From Hwy. 17: Take Hwy 174, 28 mi. to entrance of the town of Edisto Tour and Programs InformaBeach. Asayou enterhabitat the town tion: Visit natural limits, theisentrance the park will zoo that home to to animal be on your species thatleft. were indigenous to Carolina at the timeSeven of thefully Lodging Information: settlement. View (2 a 17th century furnished cabins cabins with replica ship, called a trading handicap access) ketch, as it is reconstructed on GPS Coordinates: Long: 80° 18’ site. Watch archaeologists at 0.54”W , Lat: 32° 31’ 15.05”N work rediscovering the past of Park Facilities & Activities: South Carolina’s birthplace. Birding Charles Towne Landing is a Boating/Boat Landing “DiscoverCarolina Site”, which Camping: Standard Sitesso(112), provides curriculum-based
Hiking Days and Hours of Operation: Daily 9am-5pmTrails Interpretive Days and Holidays Closed: Ocean Swimming Christmas Eve/Christmas Day Picnic Areas/Picnic Shelters Admissions: $5 /adult; $3.25 Surf Fishing: flounder, whiting, /S.C. Senior; $3 /youth age spot tail and others 6-15 Driving Directions: From 1-26 E: Take Cosgrove Road exit 216A onto Hwy. 7 (Sam Rittenberg Blvd.) bear left onto Hwy 171 (Old Town Rd.) Follow signs for Charles Towne Landing. The park is on the left at a traffic light. GPS Coordinants: Park Facilities and Activities Cabins Camping Picnic Area with Shelters Hiking Trail Fishing Rental Fishing Boats Equestrian Campground Equestrian Trail
8377 State Cabin Rd
8155 Greer HWY Edisto Island, SC 29438 Cleveland, 29635 (park info, Phone: (843)SC 869-2156 cabin/camping info, within 1-day Phone: (864) 836-6115 camping reservations, within 3-day
Office Hours: 9am-5pm
cabin reservations, and all handicap
Park Hours: M-Su 9am-6pm reservations) (extended toM-Fr 9pm9am-5pm during (March Office Hours: -Daylight October) Savings Time) Administration Phone: (843) 869-2756 (11am-12pm, 4pm-5pm) Park Hours: M-Su 8am-6pm (hours
AMP Services (48), Only cial50 studies programs forTent South
are extended during Daylight Savings
Carolina school children. Sites (5)
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PARK NAME EDISTO BEACH STATE PARK
Charles An oceanfront Towne campground Landing State Historic Site is back and on a palmetto-lined beach better The grand famed than for itsever. shelling is just one opening of renovated park highlight ofthe Edisto Beach State across Park. the Ashley River from downtown Charleston was held Only an hour from on Thursday, August 17, 2006. Charleston, the park also offers A state park since 1970, the site another campground deep in is where a ship full of British the maritime forest full of live settlers and their servants oaks and some of the state’s arrived from Barbados and tallest palmetto trees, as well established the first permanent as a row of comfortable cabins European colony in the nestled in the woods but with Carolinas in 1670. a front-row view of miles of A highlight of the 664-acre pristine marshland. park is the new Visitor Center, Edisto Beach State Park which includes extensive also offers the state’s longest interactive exhibits describing system of handicappedhow settlers, slaves, traders friendly hiking and biking trails, and Native Americans came including one leading to a together on this spot to forge mysterious, 4,000-year-old the beginnings of what would shellmidden alongside a become the plantation system secluded bend on a tidal creek. of the American South. The an a The park park also also has includes environmental full-scale replicaeducation trading ship, center, a “green” building protective palisades, and afull of exhibits highlight the garden thatthat includes crops natural history Edisto Island from that time, of a natural habitat and surrounding ACE Basin, zoo, the ongoing archaeological one of the nation’s largest activity, walking paths and full preserved estuaries. visitor amenities.
Charles Towne Counties: Colleton Landing State
Canoeing/Kayaking Hours /Admissions
Historic is located on Old Acreage:Site 1255 Town Road (S.C. 171) near Exit Pets: Pets are not allowed in the 216-A off Interstate 26. cabins or the cabin areas. Pets are Designation: Listed onoutdoor the allowed in most other
Education Office Hours: Center Daily 9am-5pm
national Register areas provided they are kept under Counties:restraint Charleston physical or on a leash not longer than Acreage: 664six feet. Admissions: $3.25/SC When & How$5/adult; Acquired: Reseniors; $3/1971 childfrom age 6-15; Free for ceived in the Tricenchildren 5 and younger. tennial Commission Driving Directions: Pets: Pets are not allowed in the park. From Hwy. 17: Take Hwy 174, 28 mi. to entrance of the town of Edisto Tour and Programs InformaBeach. Asayou enterhabitat the town tion: Visit natural limits, theisentrance the park will zoo that home to to animal be on your species thatleft. were indigenous to Carolina at the timeSeven of thefully Lodging Information: settlement. View (2 a 17th century furnished cabins cabins with replica ship, called a trading handicap access) ketch, as it is reconstructed on GPS Coordinates: Long: 80° 18’ site. Watch archaeologists at 0.54”W , Lat: 32° 31’ 15.05”N work rediscovering the past of Park Facilities & Activities: South Carolina’s birthplace. Birding Charles Towne Landing is a Boating/Boat Landing “DiscoverCarolina Site”, which Camping: Standard Sitesso(112), provides curriculum-based
Hiking Days and Hours of Operation: Daily 9am-5pmTrails Interpretive Days and Holidays Closed: Ocean Swimming Christmas Eve/Christmas Day Picnic Areas/Picnic Shelters Admissions: $5 /adult; $3.25 Surf Fishing: flounder, whiting, /S.C. Senior; $3 /youth age spot tail and others 6-15 Driving Directions: From 1-26 E: Take Cosgrove Road exit 216A onto Hwy. 7 (Sam Rittenberg Blvd.) bear left onto Hwy 171 (Old Town Rd.) Follow signs for Charles Towne Landing. The park is on the left at a traffic light. GPS Coordinants: Park Facilities and Activities Cabins Camping Picnic Area with Shelters Hiking Trail Fishing Rental Fishing Boats Equestrian Campground Equestrian Trail
8377 State Cabin Rd
8155 Greer HWY Edisto Island, SC 29438 Cleveland, 29635 (park info, Phone: (843)SC 869-2156 cabin/camping info, within 1-day Phone: (864) 836-6115 camping reservations, within 3-day
Office Hours: 9am-5pm
cabin reservations, and all handicap
Park Hours: M-Su 9am-6pm reservations) (extended toM-Fr 9pm9am-5pm during (March Office Hours: -Daylight October) Savings Time) Administration Phone: (843) 869-2756 (11am-12pm, 4pm-5pm) Park Hours: M-Su 8am-6pm (hours
AMP Services (48), Only cial50 studies programs forTent South
are extended during Daylight Savings
Carolina school children. Sites (5)
Time)
w w w .ws w o u. stohuc tahr co al ir no al ipnaar pk as .r ck os m .com . [email protected]
