SOUTH CAROLINA’S PARKEDISTO NAME BEACH STATE PARK

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Park.across 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 CharlesCounties: Towne Colleton Landing State HoursCanoeing/Kayaking/Admissions established the first permanent as a row of comfortable cabins Acreage:Historic Site 1255 is located on Old OfficeEducation Hours: CenterDaily 9am-5pm European colony in the Town Road (S.C. 171) near Exit Pets: Pets are not allowed in the DaysHiking and Hours of Operation: nestled in the woods but with 216-A off Interstate 26. Carolinas in 1670. cabins or the cabin areas. Pets are DailyInterpretive 9am-5pm Trails a front-row view of miles of Designation: Listed on the allowed in most other outdoor DaysOcean and HolidaysSwimming Closed: A highlight of the 664-acre national Register areas provided they are kept under Christmas Eve/Christmas Day pristine marshland. Picnic Areas/Picnic Shelters Counties: Charleston park is the new Visitor Center, physical restraint or on a leash not Admissions: $5 /adult; $3.25 Edisto Beach State Park Surf Fishing: flounder, whiting, Acreage:longer than 664 six feet. /S.C. Senior; $3 /youth age which includes extensive spot tail and others also offers the state’s longest WhenAdmissions: & How $5/adult; Acquired: $3.25/SC Re- 6-15 interactive exhibits describing seniors;ceived in$3/ 1971 child from age 6-15;the Tricen Free for- Driving Directions: From 1-26 system of handicapped- how settlers, slaves, traders childrentennial Commission 5 and younger. E: Take Cosgrove Road exit friendly hiking and biking trails, and Native Americans came DrivingPets: Pets Directions: are not allowed in 216A onto Hwy. 7 (Sam Rit- including one leading to a Fromthe park. Hwy. 17: Take Hwy 174, 28 mi. tenberg Blvd.) bear left onto together on this spot to forge toTour entrance and Programs of the town Informa of Edisto- Hwy 171 (Old Town Rd.) Fol- mysterious, 4,000-year-old the beginnings of what would Beach.tion: Visit As ayou natural enter habitat the town low signs for Charles Towne shellmidden alongside a limits, the entrance to the park will Landing. The park is on the become the plantation system zoo that is home to animal left at a traffic light. bespecies on your that left. were indigenous secluded bend on a tidal creek. 8377 State Cabin Rd of the American South. Lodgingto Carolina Information: at the time Seven of the fully GPS Coordinants: Edisto8155 Greer Island, HWY SC 29438 Cleveland, SC 29635 The park also hasincludes an a furnishedsettlement. cabins View (2a 17thcabins century with Park Facilities and Activities Phone: (843) 869-2156 (park info, replica ship, called a trading Phone:cabin/camping (864) 836-6115info, within 1-day environmental education handicap access) Cabins full-scale replica trading ship, camping reservations, within 3-day ketch, as it is reconstructed on Camping Office Hours: 9am-5pm GPS Coordinates: Long: 80° 18’ cabin reservations, and all handicap center,protective a “green” palisades, building and afull site. Watch archaeologists at Picnic Area with Shelters 0.54”W , Lat: 32° 31’ 15.05”N Parkreservations) Hours: M-Su 9am-6pm work rediscovering the past of Hiking Trail ofgarden exhibits that that includes highlight crops the Park Facilities & Activities: (extendedOffice Hours: to M-Fr 9pm 9am-5pm during (March ’s birthplace. Fishing -Daylight October) Savings Time) natural history of Birding from that time, a natural habitat Rental Fishing Boats is a Administration Phone: (843) 896- Boating/Boat Landing andzoo, theongoing surrounding archaeological ACE Basin, “DiscoverCarolina Site”, which Equestrian Campground 2756 (11am-12pm, 4pm-5pm) providesCamping: curriculum-based Standard Sites so(112),- Equestrian Trail Park Hours: M-Su 8am-6pm (hours oneactivity, of the walking nation’s paths largest and full cial50 studies AMP Servicesprograms (48), for Tent South Only are extended during Daylight Savings preservedvisitor amenities. estuaries. CarolinaSites (5) school children. Time) www.southcarolinaparks.comwww.southcarolinaparks.com . [email protected]