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Hester's Bottoms Family Campground

Located in Mt. Carmel, South Carolina, Hester’s Bottoms is a beautiful campground that sits on the 71,000 acre Strom Thurmond Lake (also known as Clarks Hill Lake). Under new management since March of 2021, the campground offers 39 waterfront RV sites and five waterfront primitive sites. All of the sites include Wi-Fi and the RV sites offer 50-, 30-, and 20-amp services.

Guests are invited to use the private boat launch, boat dock, fish from the banks and enjoy the private beach and playground. The campground offers three bathhouses, each with private hot showers. Campground activities including fishing, swimming, walking, bike riding, kayaking, picnicking, or just hanging with friends and family and watching the sun set in the water.

If you’re interested in enjoying golf carts, kayaks, paddleboards, and more during your stay, they have a rental program right there in the campground — no need to load up your equipment! Just travel light and enjoy renting our toys while you stay at Hester’s Bottoms.

Calhoun Falls State Park

Calhoun Falls State Park sits along several pine-covered points extending out into sparsely-developed Lake Russell. The Calhoun Falls campground is one of the most coveted in the park system, with spacious RV and tent sites complete with forested, shoreline views of the lake.

Day-use activities include a short, easy nature trail, tennis court, seasonal swimming and fishing. The park also attracts various events year round, including fishing tournaments and the popular South Carolina Campground Cookoff.

Camp Clatworthy

Choose a creekside retreat, a grassy knoll for stargazing, or a rustic pine forest as your weekend getaway. Several miles of trails, dirt roads, and streams wind through 1000 acres in which you are free to explore, along with an undeveloped 18 acre lake.

A large portion of the property is dedicated to sustainable loblolly pine forests dating back to the 1980’s. A significant area of the property is dedicated to native hardwood forest and has some of the oldest and largest white oak, poplar, elm and shortleaf pines in the upstate. The remainder of the property is pasture; home to Black Angus cattle.