After we left Barnwell State Park, the Beavers travelled about thirty minutes north into Aiken County. While the weather was still overcast and drizzling some, we knew we had a fire waiting for us at one of the programs that Aiken State Park was offering.
For the holidays, they had an ornament making workshop in one of the picnic shelters. We were promised a fire in the online information, and they delivered on that promise. 🙂
This program was one of the ones featured in this year’s Dashing Through the Parks incentive, getting people out visiting the parks during the holidays. As such, there were quite a few people there. It was my first time with ‘state park people’, a new subculture I didn’t know existed until then! People were talking about their ‘home parks’ and how many points they had gotten in this year’s scavenger hunt, and there was at least one Ultimate Outsider sweatshirt on display (meaning they had visited all 47 parks).
Teagan and Sage each made an ornament using pine cones and/or a circle cut-out of a tree trunk. After they finished, we couldn’t do much else in the park due to the rain. On the way out, we stopped by the canoe put-in, as this park is located on the banks of the Edisto River. It would be something I’d love to do when the weather was better.
Click the pictures below for full-size images from the rest of our visit at the park. We’ll see where 2023 takes us!
Beavers in the Park 