WINTER WEATHER CLOSINGS
WINTER WEATHER CLOSINGS
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Emergency Alert

The following parks are CLOSED due to winter weather:

  • Aiken State Park
  • Baker Creek State Park
  • Barnwell State Park
  • Battle of Rivers Bridge SHS
  • Caesars Head State Park
  • Cheraw State Park (park open, golf course remains closed)
  • Devils Fork State Park
  • Dreher Island State Park
  • Hickory Knob State Resort Park (park open, golf course & restaurant remain closed)
  • Keowee-Toxaway State Park
  • Oconee State Park
  • Oconee Station SHS
  • Paris Mountain State Park
  • Redcliffe Plantation SHS
  • Table Rock State Park


Jones Gap State Park remains CLOSED due to impacts from Hurricane Helene.


At South Carolina State Parks, safety is our top priority! As you finalize travel plans for your reservation this weekend, please check forecasts to ensure you are aware of potential weather impacts along your route.

In some areas of the state, precipitation and freezing temperatures are expected to have significant travel impacts from late Friday afternoon through Saturday morning. Please exercise caution and avoid hazardous conditions. Consider arriving by mid-afternoon or delaying travel if conditions worsen.

For park status updates, visit www.southcarolinaparks.com. While you may contact the park directly, please understand that park office hours may change due to inclement weather.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. Thank you for choosing South Carolina State Parks! We look forward to welcoming you and hope you have a safe and enjoyable visit.


Civil Rights Movement

From its founding in the 1930s until its full integration in 1966, the South Carolina State Park system operated with strictly segregated facilities. As early as 1938, African American leaders worked to secure access to state parks. Their efforts resulted in the establishment of separate recreation areas for black citizens. These included portions of Lake Greenwood, Hunting Island and Huntington Beach State Parks. The system also included segregated African American parks at Pleasant Ridge, Campbell’s Pond and Mill Creek.

From 1955-1965, African American students, activists and civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, challenged park segregation. Their struggles, undertaken at significant personal, social and economic risk, eventually resulted in full integration of the state parks. Today the parks are open to all people.

For more information on this topic, you can view the digital exhibit Remembering and Acknowledging the History of Segregation in South Carolina State Parks. Interpretive signs about the struggle for equal access are also located at Lake Greenwood State Park.

In addition, you can take a Virtual Tour of Civil Rights Memory Sites in the South Carolina State Parks. In this virtual tour you can trace the history of important Civil Rights events that took place on the parks.

For more information on African American cultural sites in South Carolina, visit the Green Book of SC website.