Francis Marion National Forest
National Forest · McClellanville, South Carolina
About two hundred and sixty thousand acres of longleaf pine, blackwater swamp and Carolina bay between Charleston and the Santee, named for the Revolutionary partisan who used exactly this country to disappear into. On the night of 21 September 1989 Hurricane Hugo came ashore across it and flattened the great majority of the standing timber in a few hours — the most destructive single event ever recorded in an American national forest — and what followed here rewrote how the Forest Service manages longleaf pine and saves red-cockaded woodpeckers.
McClellanville, South Carolina, United States
FREE and open at all times, year round — National Forest System land with no gate and no general entrance fee. DEVELOPED RECREATION AREAS such as Buck Hall charge a modest day-use fee and camping fee. THE SEWEE VISITOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER at Awendaw keeps daytime hours on a reduced week and is shared with Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge — verify before relying on it. Hunting seasons are set by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and a state licence is required. Forest roads flood; several close seasonally and after storms.
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