Explore Berkeley County, SC

Great opportunity to volunteer and get outdoors this weekend. Together, we all can Keep Berkeley Beautiful! 🌷🌾🌞

Sign up and join us this Saturday at 9 am for the Great American Cleanup at the Hatchery Boat Landing! #getoutside #volunteer #cleanup #community #palmettopride #kab #litterfree #keepberkeleybeautiful

The Southern Edge Magazine - Spring 2022

Check out our ✨beautiful ad in The Southern Edge Magazine! Right next to our neighbors, Visit Summerville 👋

#oohlala #makesuswanttogetonthewater #getoutdoors #exploreberkeleycountysc #boating #fishing #paddling #hiking #biking #walking #rowing #endlesspossibilities #tourism #travel #adventure #explore #outdoorcapitalofSC

https://issuu.com/scnationalheritagecorridor/docs/tse.spring2022.digital/76

The Southern Edge Magazine - Spring 2022 A Modern Approach to Southern Living

Did you know the South Carolina Welcome Centers generate millions of dollars annually in additional travel revenue by simplifying the travel planning experience and offering complimentary services and proactive one-on-one marketing?
The SC Welcome Centers make complimentary accommodation and attraction reservations for travelers at no cost to industry partners, such as Explore Berkeley County, SC. We are grateful to participate and market our offerings to the millions of guests who visit the “front porches” of South Carolina each year.

Thank you Discover South Carolina and the entire SC Welcome Center family!

$15M hotel project coming to Berkeley County megadevelopment

This is exciting news! We look forward to welcoming Spring Hill Suites to the City of Goose Creek - Municipal Government -- making this hotel #29 in #BerkeleyCounty! #accommodations #travel #tourists #staycations #hotel #lodging #hospitality #exploreberkeleycountysc #creekrising 🏨

$15M hotel project coming to Berkeley County megadevelopment A 109-room, $15 million hotel development is expected to break ground in Carnes Crossroads later this year. It's the biggest commercial real estate development in Goose Creek history.

🍀 We sure are lucky to call #BerkeleyCounty home 🍀✨

Bring your family/friends out to the farm for some down-home Friday night fun at Hickory Bluff Berry Farm all Spring/Summer long! 🍓🧑‍🌾👩‍🌾🎻🎤 #agritourism #supportlocal #farms #tours #livemusic #familyfriendly #kidapproved #getoutdoors

Join us for some FARM FUN this Friday starting at 5:00. Parking donations are $5/car to help with the cost of local music... #farmfun #scfarmfun #certifiedsc #supportlocal

#ExploreBerkeleyCounty is at Berkeley Outdoors Marine all weekend! Stop by and say hey 👋🏼 and learn all about the fun activities right here in your backyard!

It was a great day in #BerkeleyCounty

Join us tomorrow morning for this exciting project completion ribbon cutting ✂️
3.11.2022
10:30am

*SWAMP FOX PASSAGE RECLAMATION PROJECT RIBBON-CUTTING*

The Francis Marion National Forest plans to celebrate the completion of the Swamp Fox Passage Reclamation Project with a special ribbon-cutting event on Friday, March 11 at 10:30 a.m.

What started as a simple partnership between the Francis Marion National Forest and Berkeley Soil & Water Conservation District in 2017 evolved into a comprehensive, five-year project involving nine partners across the Lowcountry, including also the Palmetto Conservation Foundation. The event will occur rain or shine at the Highway 52 trailhead, with an optional hike to follow.

“Berkeley County is incredibly thankful to our state for Title II funding that trickles down and greatly benefits counties and their citizens. The Swamp Fox Passage will ultimately enhance tourism and quality of life opportunities for locals and tourists alike. Recreational success stories like this one are something our county leaders and elected officials will always champion and support." -Berkeley County Supervisor Johnny Cribb

MORE INFO: https://bit.ly/3MyXBZF

#BerkeleyCounty #OneBerkeley

The great outdoors are our specialty! ✨(chef’s kiss)✨ Come see us this weekend at Berkeley Outdoors Marine’s Tri-County Outdoor Expo!

The Best Fried Catfish In The Southeast Can Be Found At This Unassuming Lakefront Restaurant

Great food AND beautiful lakefront dining!? Can't beat it with a stick #votedbestfriedcatfish #LakeMoultrie
Watermark Bar-Grill Santee Cooper Country Explore Berkeley County, SC

The Best Fried Catfish In The Southeast Can Be Found At This Unassuming Lakefront Restaurant Head to the shores of Lake Moultrie in South Carolina to find the absolute best fried catfish in the South at Watermark Bar & Grill.

Happy #MepkinMonday from #exploreberkeleycounty 🌳🌴🌿🌾🌺☀️ Enjoy this beautiful day!

Mepkin Abbey

You can support local #agritourism in Berkeley County by filling your home with these beauties 😍💐 #springfever #upickfarm
Red, White, & Bloom

We take so much pride in our Therapeutic Programs through City of Goose Creek Recreation! 💙

Did you know our Tandem Adaptive Tricycles are FREE for residents and non-residents to use? Learn more about the Tricycle & other Therapeutic programs & events at https://bit.ly/3hEBenb

#creekrising #WeAllRise #GCRec

Lord Berkeley Conservation Trust

What a great legacy of leaders in conservation. Happy 30 years to Lord Berkeley Conservation Trust! Thank you for the heart-felt work you've done in Berkeley County over the years.

Lord Berkeley Conservation Trust ConservationStarts With Us We work to conserve special places in perpetuity - that's forever! These lands and waters are more than shades on a map. They are family farms, native forests, historic battlefields and miles of uninterrupted scenic river corridors. Conservation Founded in 1992, Lord Berke...

Heads up! It's eat lunch outside day, so get out there and enjoy this beautiful March weather ☀️🥪🥤
📷: Venice Park in City of Hanahan
Hanahan Recreation Department

Let's do this! Head to this post to watch with us: https://www.facebook.com/NextonSC/posts/7307587115948596

📺🎉 Time to tune in - turn on HGTV or discovery+ for Season 3 of Rock the Block! 📺🎉

Welcome to the OFFICIAL #RocktheBlock Episode 1 discussion post. Watch along with us for a lively conversation all about the homes, daring designs, and life in Nexton and the Charleston region. Plus, we want to know what YOU think! Ask your questions, tell us your favorite features, and shout out to the HGTV stars!

Just by joining in the conversation, you will be registered to win a very special Nexton/Hunter Quinn Homes prize pack. Which team do you think will take the big prize? Watch, win and chime in! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Who else loves this show?! Tune in tonight starting at 9:00PM to see the beautiful Hunter Quinn Homes built in Nexton.
While you're watching the show, join us in a live conversation on the Nexton page, "Rock the Block Charleston Watch Party": https://www.facebook.com/events/319341223474990

#ExploreBerkeleyCounty will be talking all about the cool amenities and attractions near Nexton!

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! Rock the Block season 3 - filmed in Midtown Nexton with homes built by Hunter Quinn Homes - premieres on HGTV and Discovery+! Watch along with us and come back here to join the official episode discussion.

Today, the 227th celebration of life event for General Francis Marion, took place in Pineville,SC. People far and near came to honor Berkeley County’s Revolutionary War hero- the #SwampFox. The memorial ceremony, camaraderie and weather were perfect! This special event is held every year on the last week of February.

Representatives from Berkeley County Government were in attendance; Berkeley County Councilmember, Brandon Cox, and Berkeley County’s Parks, Recreation and Tourism team, Heather McDowell and Rachel Knight.
Join us next year!

Season Three of HGTV ’s popular “Rock the Block” series, featuring Berkeley County’s Nexton community, is set to air at 9 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022 on HGTV and Discovery+.

Tune in for each episode on Mondays at 9 pm and join the Charleston Watch Party online Facebook wall for a lively conversation led by special guest hosts, local designers, homeowners, Realtors, and builder reps and more!
https://www.facebook.com/events/319341223474990/

Photos from Tri-County Outdoor Expo's post

Memorial Service Planned Feb. 26 For Revolutionary War Hero Francis Marion

The #FrancisMarionMemorialService (with wreath laying) will be held tomorrow, Saturday, February 26, starting at 11 a.m. at Belle Isle Plantation west of Pineville off of Highway 45.

A BBQ lunch will be available (for a $10 donation) after the service at Belle Isle Presbyterian Church (a couple of miles west of Belle Isle) on Highway 45. All proceeds/donations will be given to the Sumpter Free Health Clinic. Don't forget to bring a chair!
#SwampFox #richhistory #RevWarhero #exploreberkeleycountysc

Memorial Service Planned Feb. 26 For Revolutionary War Hero Francis Marion The event will take place at 11 a.m. at Marion's tomb at the site of Belle Isle Plantation on General Francis Marion Avenue in Pineville.

"Berkeley County is incredibly thankful to our state for Title II funding that trickles down and greatly benefits counties and their citizens. The Swamp Fox Passage will ultimately enhance tourism and quality of life opportunities for locals and tourists alike. Recreational success stories like this one are something our county leaders and elected officials will always champion and support." -Berkeley County Supervisor Johnny Cribb

The U.S. Forest Service - Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests is pleased to announce the completion of this project. For those who wish to attend, please see the below drop pin link.
https://goo.gl/maps/C44U7WNcgu9YYoNr9

#ExploreBerkeleyCountySC #OneBerkeley #BerkeleyCounty Palmetto Conservation Foundation
U.S. Department of Agriculture

*FOSSIL FEST 2022!!*

Did you know Coastal South Carolina’s lively prehistoric past makes the Lowcountry a unique mecca for a variety of fossils? They range from sharks' teeth, whale, mastodon, giant sloth, sea urchin and primitive horse fossils!

Both amateur collectors and paleontologists will share their unique and intriguing findings at this two-day, family-friendly event--back for the first time since 2015!!

The two-day event will be 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily Saturday, Feb. 26 & Sunday, Feb. 27.

Displays of local fossils and even some exotic fossil material will be on-hand for viewing and exploring. Guests are encouraged to bring their own finds and have them analyzed by experts, who will be available to help with identification. Children can participate in a fossil dig, and door prizes will be awarded!

The event is FREE to attend and included with price of park admission! This is a special event day; Season passes, reciprocal passes, free admission passes, group rates, and coupons are not valid during Fossil Fest.

To register as a vendor, contact Gabe Shuler at 843-553-0515 or [email protected].

For more information, go HERE: cypressgardens.berkeleycountysc.gov
#fossilfest #OneBerkeley #BerkeleyCounty

Some spectacular events are happening this weekend in our backyard. Our favorites you ask? FREE SATURDAY at Cypress Gardens and the kick-off event for #Tourism in the Lowcountry... the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition!!

*BLACK HISTORY MONTH HIGHLIGHT*

Did you know Maude Callen served as a key player in Berkeley County’s past?

The compassionate nurse-midwife helped forge the path for women’s healthcare in the County. She specifically catered to the healthcare needs of residents in impoverished areas in Pineville during the 1920s.

During Callen's more than 60-year career, she operated a community clinic inside her home and helped deliver more than 600 babies. Callen also passed on her midwife knowledge to other local women.

Callen’s contribution to medicine, women’s health and Berkeley County as a whole won’t soon be forgotten. Her incredible life and vast medical achievements are documented in a 12-page photo essay published in Life Magazine in 1951 and also decorate part of the walls of the first-floor lobby at the Roper St Francis Berkeley Hospital.

In 2017, Berkeley County Historical Society unveiled a historical marker honoring Callen.

#BerkeleyCounty #OneBerkeley #BlackHistoryMonth Roper St. Francis Healthcare

Love is in the air ❤️ Happy Valentine's Day!
📸: Cypress Gardens

The 2022 Black History Month theme is Black Health and Wellness.

Dr. Walter Evans was born in Berkeley County on September 23, 1891. He excelled at reading, so his parents sent him to school in Charleston and then to Claflin College in Orangeburg. By 1920, he had graduated from Boston University Medical School.

Evans returned to Moncks Corner and set up a medical practice, the first Black physician in the county. Dr. Evans treated both Black and white residents, though he was unable to practice at the local white hospital. He would accept food and other goods from patients unable to pay.

Dr. Evans died in 1967. In the 1990s, the road on which his house still stands was renamed Doctor Evans Road.

📷: Evans house. Photo by Brandon Coffey

#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

Check out some LOVEly events happening this month in Berkeley County! If you're hosting an event and would like to be included on the #ExploreBerkeleyCounty event calendar, please submit your event in the link below: https://tourism.berkeleycountysc.gov/submission/

Take your lunch outside this week as the weather will be warm (70's) and beautiful! ☀️
Old Santee Canal Park

Lunchtime is a great time to visit the park. We have picnic tables and 4 miles of boardwalk to explore on your lunch hour.

image description: a large, Great Blue Heron wading bird stands on our boardwalk while swallowing a Bluegill fish.

Tickets are going fast! Reserve your love boat today ❤❤
Cypress Gardens

#ExploreBerkeleyCounty distributed over 3,500 promotional brochures of Berkeley County #attractions and #accommodations today!!

Thank you Capital City/Lake Murray Country Regional Tourism Board for opening up your beautiful #visitorcenter to network with tourism professionals from all across the state. Managers from each South Carolina Welcome Center
participated in a brochure swap organized by Discover South Carolina. We’re so thankful to work with these amazing industry partners. Thank you for helping us spread the word about our unique destination at all SC welcome centers! 🗺

Santee Cooper Country