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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)”

The Beaver family was fortunate to have a long weekend this February, so we took the opportunity to head to the Pee Dee / Grand Strand region of our state (roughly the northeastern quadrant of our state, including the coastline). We visited four state parks on this trip, Little Pee Dee being the first. AContinue reading “Little Pee Dee State Park (SC07 – Dillon)”

Having been a geocacher in the Upstate for years, I knew about Rose Hill simply because there was a geocache there; however, I had never been there until today. Doing some initial research before going by reading the official site (linked below), I learned that it was the plantation owned by William Henry Gist, theContinue reading “Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site (SC06 – Union)”