Hunting Island State Park

Hunting Island State Park is South Carolina’s most-visited state park, offering five miles of unspoiled beaches, maritime forests, salt marshes, and a historic lighthouse. Near Beaufort, it’s a favorite spot for swimming, wildlife viewing, hiking, camping, and experiencing the state’s natural coastal beauty.

Hunting Island State Park, SC: The Wild Lowcountry Beach

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You drive out of Beaufort, cross a series of bridges over salt marsh and tidal creeks, and then you arrive on a 5,000-acre barrier island that operates completely outside the normal rules of South Carolina beach tourism. No resort complex waits at the entrance. No gift shop strip lines the main road. What meets you instead is five miles of wild, undeveloped Atlantic beach, thousands of acres of maritime forest and salt marsh, a saltwater lagoon, and a historic lighthouse that SC State Parks just announced is reopening to the public