{"id":915,"date":"2020-05-21T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2020-05-21T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:13:54","slug":"union-county-south-carolina-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Union County, South Carolina (ish)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We chose the Union County area to do a bunch of a short hikes in on a random weekday because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. We had not really ever been to that part of South Carolina.<\/li>
  2. It seemed like a place people wouldn’t necessarily flock to to hike during the Coronovirus shutdowns.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    So first we went to Musgrove Mill State Historic Site which is actually a battlefield themed park but has some nice nature hikes as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Horseshoe Falls @ Musgrove Mill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    The highlight is Horseshoe falls which is actually a very short hike (maybe 0.1 miles?) from the parking area on the north side of the river. This is a pretty section of river with sandy banks and easy rock scrambling at these water levels. It is also not a horseshoe at these water levels but looks like it would be at higher water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Next up was Rose Hill Plantation, the former home of 1860s South Carolina governor William Gist. The house was closed due to COVID-19 but the grounds were open and there are a couple nice trails behind the home through the woods (formerly cotton fields). There are in the neighborhood of 2-5 miles of trails here depending on the loops you choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Magnolias in front of Rose Hill Plantation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Finally we went to Pacolet River Heritage Preserve which, for the record, is NOT in Union County but we had to choose a title for this entry and Union County won. Sorry Spartanburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Anyway, this is basically a small lot at the end of dirt road that will have your wife questioning if your directions are correct (mine did anyway). There is one trail here, it’s about a mile and half in length and ends along the Pacolet River at the site of a former bridge that was destroyed in a flood (interesting info on this at the trailhead).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Bridge remnants on the Pacolet River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    The river area is nice, we saw a lot of turtles and there is a soapstone quarry site in the vicinity that has been used for thousands of years (literally). The trailhead also has info on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    We chose the Union County area to do a bunch of a short hikes in on a random weekday because: We had not really ever been to that part of South Carolina. It seemed like a place people wouldn’t necessarily flock to to hike during the Coronovirus shutdowns. So first we went to Musgrove Mill … Continue reading Union County, South Carolina (ish)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-sumter-nf","category-uncategorized","category-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}