About the South Carolina Zone

A regional hub for outdoor communities across South Carolina, including Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Myrtle Beach, the Blue Ridge foothills, the Midlands, the Lowcountry, the Grand Strand, and the I-26 corridor. Share local trail knowledge, discover clubs and events, coordinate stewardship, and connect with people across the region.

Includes these counties: Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Anderson, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Colleton, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester, Edgefield, Fairfield, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lee, Lexington, Marion, Marlboro, McCormick, Newberry, Oconee, Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, Williamsburg, and York.

South Carolina’s outdoor landscape ranges from the Blue Ridge Escarpment and Jocassee Gorges to Congaree National Park’s old-growth bottomland hardwood floodplain, the mountain, Piedmont, and coastal terrain of the Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests, and the barrier islands, salt marshes, and waterways of Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. South Carolina State Parks add protected lands from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Atlantic sand dunes, including Table Rock, Caesars Head, Jones Gap, Devils Fork, Hunting Island, and Huntington Beach.