Phone: (843)-853-8000
Distance: 15.67 miles
The Ashley River Road passes by three national historic landmarks -- Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church, Drayton Hall and Middleton Place -- as it traverses a National Register Historic District that traces the history of European and African settlement, commerce and industry from their colonial origins to the present.
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Phone: 84388155161
Email: michael_allen@nps.gov
Distance: 27.90 miles
Designated by Congress in 2006, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends from Wilmington, North Carolina in the north to Jacksonville, Florida in the south. It is home to one of America's most unique cultures, a tradition first shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendents.
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Phone: (912)-652-4415
Email: savannahcoastal@fws.gov
Distance: 59.35 miles
Tybee NWR was established on May 9, 1938, by an executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a breeding area for migratory birds and other wildlife. Located in the mouth of the Savannah River, the 100-acre refuge began as a one-acre oyster shoal, Oysterbed Island, used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) as a spoil disposal site to support their mandated harbor dredging activity. ...
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Phone: (843)-527-8069
Email: marshall_sasser@fws.gov
Distance: 91.71 miles
Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge was established on December 1, 1997. The purposes for which Waccamaw NWR was established are (1) protect and manage diverse habitat components within an important coastal river ecosystem for the benefit of endangered and threatened species, freshwater and anadromous fish, migratory birds, and forest wildlife, including a wide array of plants and animals associated...
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Phone: (843)-336-3248
Distance: 93.64 miles
This scenic byway winds through the hardwood of Sumter National
Forest along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Turnouts along
the byway provide scenic vistas of the surrounding mountains. Fall
is a popular time for driving the byway with colors of orange, red,
and gold vibrant along the way.
Hikers, backpackers, and horseback riders will be interested in
this byway with the miles of tra...
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