List of South Carolina state parks

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox government agency The State of South Carolina has a group of protected areas managed by the South Carolina State Park Service (often abbreviated to SCPRT or Park Service). Formed in 1933 in conjunction with the formalization of the federal Civilian Conservation Corps program, the State Park Service is administered by the state's Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism (SCPRT). There are a total of 48 facilities that the State Park Service administers, protecting more than 90,000 acres of sensitive, attractive, and/or historically significant lands in South Carolina.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Park Service History 1967-Present</ref> The facilities fall under four types of classifications:

• 38 State Parks
• 8 State Historic Sites
• 1 State Resort Park
• 1 State Recreational Area

Cheraw State Park was the first park to be proposed within the system in 1934 with Myrtle Beach State Park becoming the first park to open in 1936.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Park Service History 1933-1942</ref> Within six years, the State of South Carolina and the CCC opened 17 state parks.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} South Carolina Facts</ref> Originally under the jurisdiction of the South Carolina Forestry Commission, the Park Service has been a unit within the Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism since its formation in 1967. Hunting Island State Park in Beaufort County is the most popular state park in South Carolina and among the most popular in the United States, attracting 1.2 million visitors per year.

Following the Nukegate scandal, Dominion Energy settled with the South Carolina tax agency on $165 million in unpaid taxes owed due to an unfinished nuclear project in Fairfield County. As part of that settlement, the state agency and Dominion Energy agreed that Dominion would offset approximately a third of the unpaid taxes by turning over more than 2,900 acres of land which will ultimately become six new state parks in the coming years. The first state park expected to open from the settlement is Pine Island on Lake Murray.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Park Name	County or Counties	Size		Year Acquired	Year Opened
		acres	ha
Aiken State Park	Aiken	Template:Convert	1934	1936
Andrew Jackson State Park	Lancaster	Template:Convert	1953	1957
Baker Creek State Park	McCormick	Template:Convert	1967	1968
Barnwell State Park	Barnwell	Template:Convert	1937	1939
Caesars Head State Park	Greenville	Template:Convert	1976	1986
Calhoun Falls State Park	Abbeville	Template:Convert	1982
Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site	Charleston	Template:Convert	1970	1970
Cheraw State Park	Chesterfield	Template:Convert	1934	1939
Chester State Park	Chester	Template:Convert	1935	1936
Colleton State Park	Colleton	Template:Convert	1938	1940
Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site	Dorchester	Template:Convert	1960	1960
Croft State Park	Spartanburg	Template:Convert	1949
Devils Fork State Park	Oconee	Template:Convert	1991	1991
Dreher Island State Park	Newberry	Template:Convert	1970	1970
Edisto Beach State Park	Colleton	Template:Convert	1935	1937
Givhans Ferry State Park	Colleton, Dorchester	Template:Convert	1934	1937
Goodale State Park	Kershaw	Template:Convert	1973	1973
H. Cooper Black Jr. Memorial Field Trial and Recreation Area	Chesterfield	Template:Convert	1994	2006
Hamilton Branch State Park	McCormick	Template:Convert	1972	1972
Hampton Plantation State Historic Site	Charleston	Template:Convert	1972
Hickory Knob State Resort Park	McCormick	Template:Convert	1969	1973
Hunting Island State Park	Beaufort	Template:Convert	1938	1941
Huntington Beach State Park	Georgetown	Template:Convert	1960	1962
Jones Gap State Park	Greenville	Template:Convert	1976	1985
Keowee-Toxaway State Park	Pickens	Template:Convert	1970	1975
Kings Mountain State Park	Cherokee, York	Template:Convert	1934	1936
Lake Greenwood State Park	Greenwood	Template:Convert	1938	1940
Lake Hartwell State Park	Oconee	Template:Convert	1976	1985
Lake Warren State Park	Hampton	Template:Convert	1980	1990
Lake Wateree State Park	Fairfield	Template:Convert	1982	1985
Landsford Canal State Park	Chester, Lancaster	Template:Convert	1970	1973
Lee State Park	Lee	Template:Convert	1935	1941
Little Pee Dee State Park	Dillon	Template:Convert	1951	1955
May Forest State Park	Charleston	Template:Convert	2021	2023
Musgrove Mill State Historic Site	Laurens, Spartanburg, Union	Template:Convert	1975	2003
Myrtle Beach State Park	Horry	Template:Convert	1935	1936
Oconee State Park	Oconee	Template:Convert	1935	1937
Oconee Station State Historic Site	Oconee	Template:Convert	1976	1994
Paris Mountain State Park	Greenville	Template:Convert	1935	1937
Poinsett State Park	Sumter	Template:Convert	1934	1936
Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site	Aiken	Template:Convert	1973	1975
Rivers Bridge State Historic Site	Bamberg	Template:Convert	1945	1945
Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site	Union	Template:Convert	1960	1961
Sadlers Creek State Park	Anderson	Template:Convert	1966	1968
Santee State Park	Orangeburg	Template:Convert	1942	1949
Sesquicentennial State Park	Richland	Template:Convert	1937	1940
Table Rock State Park	Pickens	Template:Convert	1935	1940
Woods Bay State Park	Clarendon, Florence, Sumter	Template:Convert	1973	1973

External links

• Official website
• Official S.C. Parks Guide (2013)