A 40-foot, 675,000-pound fire hydrant — billed as the world's largest — looming over a downtown Columbia plaza, an easy oddball stop in the capital.
Road trips · South Carolina
South Carolina road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in South Carolina — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Happening in South Carolina
Masters Week in Augusta
Barely two dozen marquee events hit the whole country in a year — and South Carolina has one this April. Roamward builds the trip around it: the scenic route in, the detours worth a slack day, and when rooms sell out.
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Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
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An astonishing yard of swirling, abstract sculpted shrubs shaped over decades by one self-taught artist in tiny Bishopville, a genuine folk-art pilgrimage in the Pee Dee region.
South Carolina's last covered bridge, a red 1909 span over Beaverdam Creek set in a small park in the upstate hills near Landrum.
A 135-foot water tower painted as a giant blushing peach (leaf and all) beside I-85 in Gaffney — impossible to miss and weirdly delightful in the upstate.
A cool, cave-like rock passage you squeeze through at Caesars Head State Park, with big Blue Ridge Escarpment views nearby in the mountainous northwest.
A quarter-mile railroad tunnel hand-dug into the mountain before the Civil War and then abandoned, now cool and dripping at a constant 50 degrees, in a park near Walhalla with Issaqueena Falls nearby.
Worth traveling for
Events that put South Carolina on the calendar.
Tee it up
Public golf you can book in South Carolina.
Hilton Head Island · $$$$$ — Aim for the candy-stripe lighthouse
Bluffton · $$$$$ — Lowcountry Nicklaus along the river
Kiawah Island · $$$$$ — Pete Dye's seaside cathedral
Pawleys Island · $$$$ — Oak-lined former rice plantation
Kiawah Island · $$$$ — Gary Player along the river
Kiawah Island · $$$$ — Fazio's lakes and marsh
Plan the South Carolina trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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