Sullivan’s Island, SC: The Beach That Rewards the Curious

Sullivan’s Island doesn’t announce itself. No billboards are counting down the miles. No chain restaurants lining the causeway or souvenir shops stacked with hermit crabs and airbrushed t-shirts. You cross the Ben Sawyer Bridge from Mount Pleasant, and suddenly you’re on a three-mile barrier island with wide, uncrowded beaches. It has award-winning restaurants, 300 years of American military history, and one of the most genuinely atmospheric beach towns on the entire Carolina coast.