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Hunting Island, primarily managed as the center of Hunting Island State Park, is a spectacularly pristine, semi-tropical barrier island oasis positioned flatly along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina. Originally serving for centuries as a wild, untamed hunting preserve for colonial planters and sailors, it was protected as a state park in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It is globally celebrated for its hauntingly beautiful beachscape of skeletal sun-bleached trees and stands as South Carolina's most popular state park, safeguarding a rare maritime forest ecosystem and critical nesting grounds for endangered loggerhead sea turtles.
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Suggested stay: 1–2 days
Climb the historic 167-step spiral iron staircase at the 1859 Hunting Island Lighthouse for panoramic ocean views, walk past ghostly sun-bleached driftwood trees at Boneyard Beach, and observe wild alligators from the Marsh Boardwalk.
