If you live in Charleston and love hiking mountains, you’re out of luck. You’re going to have a drive a ways. We don’t have any big mountains or National Parks anywhere near us, but we do have the Francis Marion National Forest. “What’s the difference?” you say? I’ll let the National Park Service tell you …
Outdoors
The Caw Caw Interpretive Center is the final Charleston County Park that we had never been to. Tackling this one allowed us to complete another item on our 101 in 1001 list! The Caw Caw Interpretive Center is know as a bird sanctuary and birding hot spot in South Carolina. The park has more than …
Have you ever been out to Kiawah Island? Have you been past Beachwalker Park and behind the security gates into the residential and resort area? It’s an incredible area with beautiful homes and trails. A really neat thing is the park area where they have a disc golf course, basketball hoops, soccer nets and a …
It’s not every day that a new park is opened up in the Charleston area, but one did open up recently. Usually, land is at a premium in our area, so only so much can be owned by the city or county for parks. Well, in comes McLeod Plantation on James Island, a space that …
A few weeks ago, the Charleston County Parks and Recreation Commission announced the opening of a new county park in Mount Pleasant called Laurel Hill County Park. From what I can gather, it’s land that they have had for a while, but it hasn’t been open to the public before now. For our Valentine’s Day …