We had only one night at this campground and everyone has a part to get the campsite broken down and packed up.
Ninety-Six was about 15 minutes from the park and worth a stop. The first land battle south of New England of the Revolutionary War was fought here.
This was an important frontier town that had a "Star Fort".
On our way to Charleston and near Columbia was the Congaree National Park.
Congaree is an important ecosystem and a floodplain full of an old growth forest and bottomland trees. It is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. It also has the largest concentration of champion trees in the world like the sweet gum, loblolly pine, and American Elm and the tallest known examples of 15 of these trees. Pretty amazing!
This boardwalk shows the floodplain and the resulting muck and swamp that ensues after a rain or in this case the recent hurricane that swept through the area just days before. Many oxbow lakes form in addition to the every changing direction of the land.
This was the first time we saw cotton fields and they looked nearly ready for harvest! We also passed by a few tobacco fields as well.
We arrived at our next campsite in the very pretty, James Island County Park in Charleston. The bathrooms were very nicely updated and it had a waterpark that was closed for the season. There were many biking paths and a pond and they were setting up for a Christmas lights show.
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