South Carolina State Parks

We have stayed in three different SC State Parks for the last 10 days, so I decided to share them all in one post.

Twin Lakes Campground, Clemson, SC

NOTE:  I listed Twin Lakes Campground as a SC State Park in error.  Twin Lakes is actually an Army Core of Engineers campground.  (Corrected 12/1/18)

We were only at this park for one night.  We were in the area to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins.  This is a beautiful park and we would absolutely return.  We had a sandy beach site.

View looking towards the lake from our site.

View from the shore.

Looking from the beach back up to our site.

Of the 3 SC parks, the bath house at this park was our least favorite.  We shower in the campground showers to save space in our gray tank and because an RV shower has to be quick before the hot water runs out.  In this case the water was not what I'd call hot, so... it was still a pretty quick one :-) . Since we weren't here very long I can't say too much else about the park.  The campground is nestled between two lakes (hence the name) and so almost every site is on the water.

Lake Greenwood State Park, Ninety-six, SC

We were at this park for Thanksgiving.  While there were empty sites when we arrived on Monday, by Wednesday the place was packed, and every site was full for Thanksgiving.  Never having camped at Thanksgiving before, we were unprepared for how busy campgrounds are at this time.  We had tried several other campgrounds for a reservation this week only to find them all already booked.  It makes sense that when you live somewhere warm enough to camp in November that lots of folks would take advantage of the holiday to get in one last hurrah.  

Beautiful moonlit night.

View from our site.  Rocky shore line.

Our evening's entertainment - many nights.

We would give the park an OK rating.  We didn't love it, we didn't hate it, but we wouldn't go back.

Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, SC

This is the ideal campground.  We have a spacious site, with plenty of room between other sites and campers.  We are able to walk across the road and over a board walk to the ocean and the most amazing beach.  The water in the showers is so hot you actually have to use cold water also and there is free wireless.  We were on site 12, which is an outstanding location.  The bathhouse was "in our backyard" and the ocean was in our front yard.  The wireless router is housed in the bathhouse so the signal at our site was excellent.  There is also a nice campground gift store with basics and lots of cute touristy stuff.  There is a paved bike path which runs north and south from the campground.  We rode it for a bit, but it runs so close to the highway that all you could hear was traffic noise.  Walking the beach was a better option. 

The boardwalk to the beach.

The approach from the boardwalk to the beach.

Huntington Beach.

Site 12

This campground is in a busy oceanfront area, near Myrtle Beach.  Other nearby attractions include Pawley's Island and Georgetown, SC.  We took a drive to Georgetown and walked around the quaint downtown.  It's got cute shops and several restaurants.  We had a nice lunch at Rollin' Local.  We have friends who live in Murrells Inlet, so another bonus of our visit was getting to spend time with them.

Kelly, Carol, John and Gina