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This flat, easy-walking, paved trial winds throughout the complex and picnic shelters throughout the park provide a place to enjoy your lunch during a noontime walk.

This is a very nice—and fairly new—one-mile (two miles round trip) trail that parallels Bates Old River and offers the easiest access to the Congaree River in Congaree National Park.

The most famous—Peachtree Rock—looks like a precariously balanced overturned pyramid. Some 20 feet high, it is a remnant from millions of years ago when the Sandhills were the continent’s eastern coastline.

The Wateree Passage begins in Poinsett State Park and runs to the Wateree River, crossing through Manchester State Forest and traveling along the remnants of the old SC Railroad through Sumter Junction. The passage is one of the most diverse sections of the Palmetto Trail, traversing a variety of landscapes, from high hills down to a magnificent river swamp.

The natural surface walking track, located in Wedgefield, is open daily from dawn to dusk. 3.5 laps is equal to one mile.

The trails along the edge of Shealy’s Pond Heritage Preserve are what you would expect in a natural area, a bit squishy, but that boggy bottom creates a unique habitat that attracts people, small mammals and lots of birds.

Lake Murray Elementary School provides a short, easy-walking, and widely diverse trail, where you will hear a variety of birds, and may see lizards, deer, fox, and turtles. After a short walk through a wooded area, you will enter an open space with a series of fitness stations around its circumference.

This moderately difficult, out and back trail winds through the swampy section of the park and connects the main part of the park with the Youth Campground.

A popular place for boaters, this Lake Murray peninsula is home to several hiking trails. There is no parking—the area is accessible only by boat or bike.