Category Archives: SC State Parks

Having enjoyed a quick visit to Andrew Jackson State Park, the Beavers + our friends Kimberly, Andy, Nicholas, and Timothy set out for our fourth and final park of the day. It is still in the Lancaster area, just a few minutes from AJSP. It is located along the Catawba River, which shares its nameContinue reading “Landsford Canal State Park (SC17 – Catawba)”

Having visited the two parks in Cheraw, we headed west through Chesterfield County and into Lancaster for the two parks there. Here, we met up with our friends that live in the Rock Hill area. Tiffany and I worked with Kimberly at a camp back in the day (Summersalt – put on by the SCContinue reading “Andrew Jackson State Park (SC16 – Lancaster)”

After our visit to H. Cooper Black, we drove just a few minutes down the road to Cheraw State Park for our second park of four for the day. Tiffany and I had been to this park yeeeeears ago (2006) while geocaching. We arrived close to sunset, hiked one of the trails out to aContinue reading “Cheraw State Park (SC15 – Cheraw)”

When first discovering the wide variety of offerings available with the SC State Parks, this one immediately caught my eye. I had no idea what a ‘field trial’ was (and honestly, I still don’t really know). But I realized that this park is where people go to train their hunting dogs. There are also plentyContinue reading “H. Cooper Black, Jr. Memorial Field Trial and Recreational Area (SC14 – Cheraw)”

After two months of no new parks (thanks, whirlwind of a spring semester!), the Beavers got to visit a much-anticipated park on the way home from a trip to Atlanta. We stopped at Redcliffe Plantation, located outside the small town of Beech Island, near Augusta, GA. Redcliffe was the home of James Henry Hammond, hisContinue reading “Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site (SC13 – Beech Island)”

After visiting Tiffany’s folks in the Atlanta area on Spring Break, we headed back to South Carolina to visit my dad and stepmom. We had visited Table Rock State Park with them back in the fall, and now we got to enjoy a new park with them. I was intrigued to go to Lake GreenwoodContinue reading “Lake Greenwood State Park (SC12 – Ninety Six)”

On the first day of spring, we took the opportunity to drive over to Camden to visit Goodale State Park. Tiffany and I had twice visited here years ago, once to go geocaching (when we were first dating in 2006) and once to go canoeing (when we were engaged in 2010). Now we return withContinue reading “Goodale State Park (SC11 – Camden)”

Welcome to the fourth and final stop on the Beaver Family Winter Break 2022 State Park Extravaganza. After our first visit to some wetlands at Little Pee Dee and the coast at Huntington Beach and Myrtle Beach, we ended up at the second of three plantation homes managed by the SC State Parks: Hampton Plantation.Continue reading “Hampton Plantation State Historic Site (SC10 – McClellanville)”

Welcome to Stop #3 on the Beaver Family Winter Break 2022 State Park Extravaganza. 🙂 Links to previous two stops here and here. Ahh…the Dirty Myrt’. I’m from SC, and I’ve been to Myrtle Beach plenty of times, though hardly ever for vacation. Mostly, it would be for conventions, retreats, class trips, and the like.Continue reading “Myrtle Beach State Park (SC09 – Myrtle Beach)”

This state park was #2 on our list for the Beaver Winter Break 2022 Road Trip. For Stop #1 (Little Pee Dee SP), click here. To start off with, Tiffany and I are not necessarily beach people. To put it in perspective, our older daughter Teagan is 7, and she had never seen the coastContinue reading “Huntington Beach State Park (SC08 – Murrells Inlet)”