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South Carolina Tourist AttractionsGuide to roadside oddities and other weird, strange and unusual travel attractions in South Carolina.
Taking a gander at Gaffney’s water tower… Floating down a lazy blackwater river to your unusual lodgings…
That’s right. This South Carolina tourist attraction is a Swiss Family Robinson meets Huckleberry Finn type of adventure!
Then you hop in a canoe and lazily float the slow-flowing Edisto River. After a few hours of floating the blackwater river, where sandbars beckon you to stop for a rest and view the wildlife along the way, you arrive at the doorstep of your treehouse lodgings. Photo courtesy Carolina Heritage Outfitters.
Carolina Heritage Outfitters is 3 miles off I-95, Exit 68. Their outpost is on U.S. Route 15, one mile north of the intersection of Highway 61, Canadys, South Carolina. Phone: (843) 563-5051
A couple of roadside oddities in downtown Columbia are the world’s largest fire hydrant and the mural on the wall behind it.
Umm, it’s a mural not a tunnel so don’t try to drive through it! These two great works of art are at the corner of Taylor and Marion Streets, downtown Columbia, South Carolina.
Just the leaf weighs 7 tons. See the huge Peach Water Tank just off Interstate 85, near the exit for the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway.
Climb the spiral staircase in the historic Hunting Island lighthouse. It’s 132 feet above the ground! How’s that for a dizzying view of the Atlantic Ocean?
Photo courtesy Hunting Island State Park. Driving directions to Hunting Island State Park: From I-95: Take Hwy 21 E. toward Beaufort, SC. Hwy 21 ends at the park. It’s about 42 miles.
Yeah. On an island known for its resorts, a South Carolina tourist attraction is actually just a garbage dump. Well, actually, this garbage heap is kinda old.
Maybe even older than kinda old. Like before South Carolina became South Carolina. Like way before. Like 4,000 years ago…Like around the time the great pyramids in Ancient Egypt were built… The Indians that lived there needed a place to throw their garbage. So they just sort of pitched it out the door of their ring of huts and voila! a roadside attraction was born for future generations. Or perhaps a better term would be pathside attraction. The Indian Shell Ring is a conglomeration of several mounds of shells, animal and fish bones and some nutshells. It’s 150 feet in diameter. Other shell rings around were broken up and the shells used to build roads and buildings. So this shell ring is unique. It's the only one still visible. The Indian Shell Ring is in Sea Pines Forest Preserve on Hilton Head Island, SC. There is a 0.4 mile walk to the Shell Ring starting at the east entrance of the Forest Preserve (off Lawton Drive).
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The Carolina Heritage Outfitters takes you upstream about 12 miles from your unusual lodgings.
