Carolina Beach State Park
New Hanover County, NC
Venus flytraps growing wild, an ancient dune ridge and a marina on the Cape Fear River near Wilmington.
Camp · North & South Carolina
State parks, national forests, the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Outer Banks seashores, private campgrounds and dispersed sites — written up for people sleeping in a van, with the road in and the room to turn around.
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State park: Reservable sites, paved or well-graded roads, bathhouses in season.
29 places across North and South Carolina
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Beaufort County, SC
The most visited state park in South Carolina: a semitropical barrier island with a climbable lighthouse and an eroding beach.
Pickens County, SC
South Carolina's signature granite face, CCC stonework, and the highest summit in the state a trail away.
Greenville County, SC
A 3,200-foot overlook straight down the Blue Ridge Escarpment, and the best hawk watching in the Carolinas.
Oconee County, SC
The only public access to Lake Jocassee — deep, cold, startlingly clear water below the escarpment.
Newberry County, SC
Three islands on Lake Murray joined by bridges, with twelve miles of shoreline and campsites near the water.
Colleton County, SC
A shell-strewn beach, a maritime forest of enormous live oaks, and the edge of the ACE Basin.
Dorchester County, SC
High bluffs over the blackwater Edisto River, with 1930s CCC cabins under the oaks.
Georgetown County, SC
Widely rated the best birding on the South Carolina coast, with a Moorish-style winter home behind the dunes.
Greenville County, SC
The Middle Saluda gorge and the heart of Mountain Bridge Wilderness — trailside camping only, no vehicle sites.
Pickens County, SC
A small park on Lake Keowee with Cherokee history interpreted along its trails, below the escarpment.
Horry County, SC
The oldest state park in South Carolina, holding a mile of quiet oceanfront in the middle of the Grand Strand.
Oconee County, SC
A 1930s CCC park in the far northwest corner of the state, at the eastern end of the Foothills Trail.
Greenville County, SC
A forested mountain and CCC lake ten minutes from downtown Greenville.
Anderson County, SC
A quiet peninsula campground on Lake Hartwell, with water on three sides.
Orangeburg County, SC
Camping on Lake Marion, the largest lake in South Carolina, with limestone sinks and a flooded cypress forest.
Richland County, SC
Fourteen hundred acres of sandhills forest and a lake inside the city of Columbia.