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 Ho(111), u r s /A 50d m i sAMP s i o ns Services (49), established the first permanent as a row of comfortable cabins Acreage:Historic Site 1255 is located on Old OfficeTent Hours: Sites (5) Daily 9am-5pm European colony in the Town Road (S.C. 171) near Exit Pets: Pets are not allowed in DaysCanoeing/Kayaking and Hours of Operation: nestled in the woods but with 216-A off Interstate 26. Carolinas in 1670. the cabins or the cabin areas. DailyEducation 9am-5pm Center a front-row view of miles of Designation: Listed on the Pets are allowed in most DaysHiking and Holidays Closed: A highlight of the 664-acre national Register pristine marshland. other outdoor areas provided ChristmasInterpretive Eve/Christmas Trails Day park is the new Visitor Center, theyCounties: are kept Charleston under physical Admissions:Ocean Swimming $5 /adult; $3.25 Acreage:restraint or664 on a leash not /S.C. Senior; $3 /youth age which includes extensive Picnic Areas/Picnic longer than six feet. also offers the state’s longest When & How Acquired: Re- 6-15 interactive exhibits describing Shelters ceivedAdmissions: in 1971 $4/adult; from the $2.50/ Tricen- Driving Directions: From 1-26 system of handicapped- Surf Fishing: flounder, how settlers, slaves, traders tennialSC seniors; Commission $1.50/ child age E: Take Cosgrove Road exit whiting, spot tail and friendly hiking and biking trails, 6-15; Free for children 5 and 216A onto Hwy. 7 (Sam Rit- and Native Americans came Pets: Pets are not allowed in others younger. including one leading to a the park. tenberg Blvd.) bear left onto together on this spot to forge TourDriving and Directions: Programs Informa- Hwy 171 (Old Town Rd.) Fol- mysterious, 4,000-year-old the beginnings of what would tion:From Visit Hwy. a 17:natural Take habitat Hwy 174, low signs for Charles Towne shellmidden alongside a 28 mi. to entrance of the town Landing. The park is on the become the plantation system zoo that is home to animal left at a traffic light. speciesof Edisto that Beach. were As indigenous you enter ofsecluded the American bend on South. a tidal creek. tothe Carolina town limits, at the the time entrance of the to GPS Coordinants: 81558377 GreerState CabinHWY Rd the park will be on your left. Cleveland,, SC SC29635 29438 The park also includeshas an a settlement. View a 17th century Park Facilities and Activities Lodgingreplica ship, Information: called a tradingSeven Cabins Phone: (864)(843) 836-6115869-2756 full-scaleenvironmental replica education trading ship, fullyketch, furnished as it is reconstructed cabins (2 cabins on Camping Office Hours: 9am-5pmM-Fr 9am- protectivecenter, a “green” palisades, building and afull site. Watch archaeologists at 5pm with handicap access) Picnic Area with Shelters Park Hours: M-Su 9am-6pm work rediscovering the past of Hiking Trail gardenof exhibits that that includes highlight crops the GPS Coordinates: Long: 80° 18’ (extendedPark Hours: to M-Su 9pm during8am-6pm ’s birthplace. 0.54”W , Lat: 32° 31’ 15.05”N Fishing Daylight(extended Savings from 6am-10pm Time) natural history of Edisto Island from that time, a natural habitat is a Rental Fishing Boats Park Facilities & Activities: during Daylight Savings zoo,and theongoing surrounding archaeological ACE Basin, “DiscoverCarolina Site”, which Equestrian Campground Time) Birding Equestrian Trail provides curriculum-based so- Camping/Cabin Info: activity,one of the walking nation’s paths largest and full Boating/Boat Landing cial studies programs for South (843) 869-2156 visitorpreserved amenities. estuaries. CarolinaCamping: school Standard children. Sites www.southcarolinaparks.comwww.southcarolinaparks.com . [email protected]