Hunting Island State Park Site 157

You can zoom in here to see all the damage to SC coastal state CG's.

Several news stations, as well as park services, states it won't reopen until sometime in 2017. I hate to hear of the damage there, as it was my favorite park. I was fortunate enough to snag this site last year.

Site and road covered with sand from storm - Copy by C. Baker, on Flickr[/img]

Was able to view one video of the entrance road to the campground. 7 trees down on the entrance road alone. Pics of the lagoon show lots of water and debris. Oh well, maybe next time.

Only 1 trip out of a dozen were we able to sit outside on the back loop. The area around 157 is also low and floods in a rain. Most of the back loops do.

Sums it up pretty good. Many campers are almost on the road. My favorite is site 177.

But I do love this campground.

I've been trying to find some status on the park and have found nothing. Sorry it didn't work out this time.

Oh well, it's looking like I won't have to worry about my rv fitting on this space. With I95 and I26 closed at several places due to the flooding from Hurricane Matthew, I am sure clean up at Hunting Island is a very low priority. Maybe next time. Hope the campground survived and everyone in the area is safe.

We had ocean front ONCE too. The best beach vacation of our lives! It'll happen again, but it's like catching lightning. :)

Thanks tragusa, I appreciate all your comments. I agree, the back side is certainly a challenge. I recall one stay back there when we would spray with repellent and make a mad dash to the beach only to repeat the process upon return but as you stated, we never hesitated to return. We were lucky enough to score an ocean front site ONCE in February. It was awesome! So...I will get on 157 one way or another and I am very much looking forward to it.

Just realized that I overlooked that you had been there before. Sorry.

We've stayed on 156 and several others close by.

Hunting Island is a tale of two parks...if you camp in the back area, you will be eaten alive by mosquitoes on 99 out of 100 trips. If you stay in the front loops, you'll usually have a nice breeze to keep the bugs reasonable. Good luck finding sites on the front loop. We have twice. It was AMAZING!

Only 1 trip out of a dozen were we able to sit outside on the back loop. The area around 157 is also low and floods in a rain. Most of the back loops do.

With all that bad news, GO ANYWAY! It is an outstanding campground and unique to any others we've been to. Every time we've been, once you get to the beach, the bugs are almost non existent.

We've never been in the winter, but want to try it.