Warren Mary Ellen
Ranger
We have liked touring the South Carolina State Parks so much, we are going to give one in North Carolina a try this week. Our daughter recently moved to Durham, NC for a 6 month Co-Op with Burt's Bees as part of her Packaging Science degree at Clemson University so we are going to be camping at the Rolling View Campground at the Falls Creek Recreation area on Falls Lake. We will probably mostly be in town with her while we are there. The Durham Bulls are in town and you can see the baseball park from her apartment so that is one possibility while we are there.
When we leave there, we are headed down to the South Carolina coast in the Myrtle Beach area to check off 3 of the remaining state parks in South Carolina. Two of those have campgrounds we will check out, but this time of year they were already booked so we are camping in a commercial one this time. It is off the beach on the Waccamaw River and a small one. Not normally the way we like to camp, but to get in there this time of year, we had no choice with a last minute reservation. This place is small and away from the craziness of the beachfront down there. I read on one of commercial campground sites that at peak summer they have as many as 25,000 people on their property.
This will put us over 100 night camping in Jeremiah as we sit at 97 nights right now. The start of school is coming up soon but we will probably, possibly one more short trip in closer to home before we start up and we definitely have some fall trips already reserved.
When we leave there, we are headed down to the South Carolina coast in the Myrtle Beach area to check off 3 of the remaining state parks in South Carolina. Two of those have campgrounds we will check out, but this time of year they were already booked so we are camping in a commercial one this time. It is off the beach on the Waccamaw River and a small one. Not normally the way we like to camp, but to get in there this time of year, we had no choice with a last minute reservation. This place is small and away from the craziness of the beachfront down there. I read on one of commercial campground sites that at peak summer they have as many as 25,000 people on their property.
This will put us over 100 night camping in Jeremiah as we sit at 97 nights right now. The start of school is coming up soon but we will probably, possibly one more short trip in closer to home before we start up and we definitely have some fall trips already reserved.