SC Trails

Starting from Pitch Landing, you will paddle downstream on Echaw Creek to the Santee River. You may see evidence of abandoned rice fields and a variety of fauna such as wild turkeys, owls, bobcats, or deer as you pass through magnificent oak ­hickory stands and cypress­ tupelo swamps.

Rich in Native American history, Edisto Beach on Edisto Island is one of four oceanfront state parks in South Carolina.

Edisto Beach State Park features an environmental education center that highlights the natural history of Edisto Island and the surrounding ACE basin, South Carolina’s longest system of wheelchair-accessible hiking and biking trails, and a 1.5-mile-long beach. This is an asphalt trail that leads to the beach.

This City of Columbia specialty park is wonderful for kids and adults, alike, featuring a basketball court, community facility, playground (with fossil dig area), splash pad and a quarter-mile walking path.

Added in 1992, the 2,600 foot boardwalk takes visitors into a typical Tupelo-Cypress wetland that lies between the Display Garden and the North Fork of the Edisto River. The boardwalk is fully accessible.

This National Recreation Trail is located within the ACE Basin and you can choose between a short looped trail or a long looped trail. The scenic trail offers several historic features including an old phosphate operation, an old canal, rice fields and the historic King's Highway, an old railroad tram.

This section of the Edisto River offers challenges for the experienced paddlers, but can be navigated by the less experienced if accompanied by at least one experienced paddler.

The approximately 57.0-mile Edisto River Canoe and Kayak Trail near Summerville is an easy trip on one of the state’s longest blackwater rivers. It certainly ranks among the prettiest anywhere, too.

Ernest F. Hollings National Wildlife Refuge's extensive trail system, boardwalks, observation decks, photography blinds, fishing piers and boat launches encourage visitors to discover America’s best wildlife spectacles.

The kid-designed Roy Lynch Park includes a play set with educational and music features, a board game plaza, a picnic shelter, a splash pad, a butterfly garden and walking paths that encircle the park.

Emma Gaskins Magnolia Park is a lovely and shaded community park that offers a playground area, picnic shelter, restrooms and a short walking path. The kids can play outside while you take a nice stroll and everyone can enjoy lunch at this scenic park.

Rock Hill's Emmett Scott Center offers many recreational features including a paved walking trail, playground, picnic shelter, outdoor basketball court, handicap accessible pool, gymnasium, as well as McGirt Auditorium.

Walk along the marsh or through the 80 acres of park-style gardens, featuring thousands of azaleas, camellias and live oaks, some several hundred years old.

The Enoree Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Trail travels along rolling piedmont hills and pine forests. With interconnecting loops, riders have an opportunity for rides of various length. The trail is only managed for all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and dirt bikes.

This moderately easy section of the Palmetto Trail winds through pine ridges and hardwood bottomlands, and crosses two major creeks, the Gilders and Indian and the Enoree River. You will also pass by three small lakes, the Sedalia, John's Creek, and Wildcat. This forest area is home to a variety of wildlife such as white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and many species of songbirds.

The Enoree is known as the "River of Muscadines" and ranges from two to seix feet deep and 40 to 70 feet wide. This popular, moderate 36-mile section of the Enoree River flows through South Carolina’s scenic Piedmont to its confluence with the Broad River.

This City of Aiken park provides visitors a play system, picnic shelters, tennis and basketball courts, as well as a paved walking trail that winds through the park.

This moderately difficult section of the Palmetto Trail connects the Lake Moultrie Passage at the Diversion Canal and the Eutaw Springs Passage at Eutawville. You will hike/ride over open grass covered fields, through dense hardwood forests, and on shady sand covered roads at times within sight of Lake Marion.

Slickum Falls are located in the Eva Russell Chandler Heritage Preserve, managed by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, in the Mountain Bridge Wilderness area between Ceasars Head and Jones Gap.