Our South Carolina coverage starts in the Upstate, the mountain corner where the Blue Ridge drops into the foothills. It is the southern end of the Smokies road trip and, for one of us, the state park of every childhood summer.
The Upstate mountains
A stone chapel at sunset, a two-lake state park with winter trout, and nine more stops with real costs.
Road trips through the Upstate
The Smokies loop ends here.
North of the state line, Asheville and the Blue Ridge Parkway are on our North Carolina page.