Folly Beach: This Beach Town Does Everything on Its Own Terms
Folly Beach doesn’t care what you think of it. That’s precisely why you’re going to love it.
Just 12 miles from downtown Charleston, this six-mile barrier island operates on a frequency entirely its own. Surf shops sit next to taco joints. Live music spills out of beach bars at 2pm on a Tuesday. Locals cruise Center Street on bikes with no shoes on and zero apology about it. The whole place has a cheerful, slightly scruffy charm that Charleston’s polished historic district simply cannot manufacture, and it doesn’t try to.