The Hilton Head area revolves around the beautiful outdoors. Take a deep dive as we share the very best beaches, parks, secret spots, recreation and more. We provide you with an insider’s guide to all things outside. From which beaches to relax at, which parks to take your dog to, best hiking trails, fishing spots and more. If you are up for an adventure, we share unique secret spots (all within driving distance), that you can explore by foot, bike or kayak. Discover which fish are fresh each month, facts about them and of course, tips on how to catch them.
From an old Beaufort mansion with a legendary ghost to a historic Gullah cemetery on Daufuskie Island, these five Lowcountry places reveal where documented history, enduring mysteries and local folklore intersect.
From old cemeteries and plantation ruins to historic lighthouses, some of the Lowcountry’s most familiar places come with stories that refuse to fade. Explore 10 legends where documented history, oral tradition and mystery intertwine.
On a lonely stretch of St. Helena Island, generations have searched the darkness for the Land’s End Light. Is the mysterious glow a ghost, a distant car or something else entirely? The answer depends on whom you ask.
Is Bigfoot simply an enduring legend or could something unknown still be roaming remote wilderness? A closer look at eyewitness accounts, famous footage, scientific questions and the Sasquatch stories that refuse to disappear.
October is when fall finally settles into the Lowcountry. From cool-season planting and late-summer harvests to meteor showers, the Hunter’s Moon and pumpkin-patch season, here’s what to watch for, plant and enjoy this month.
Skip the plastic skeletons. From a carnivorous South Carolina native to brain-like blooms and a plant that rises ghostly white from the forest floor, nature has plenty of its own Halloween decorations.
Among the tabby ruins and weathered gravestones of the Chapel of Ease, Lowcountry legend tells of two young lovers whose wedding never happened — but whose nighttime reunions may have never ended
History says Maggie Comer lived a full life after growing up at Haig Point Lighthouse. Daufuskie Island folklore tells another story — one in which she never stopped watching the water for a love who sailed away.
At the Stoney-Baynard Ruins, Hilton Head folklore tells of a man who lost land he had worked to own — and a warning that is said to have echoed across the property long after his death.
Two Union soldiers, two buried sea chests and a dead pirate standing guard: an old Skull Creek tale combines Hilton Head’s Civil War history with the enduring lure of buried treasure.