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South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1
Dispersed · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC · 32.53351, -80.41165
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Island WMA in the ACE Basin -- these are numbered campsites SCDNR maps by name, and access is by boat. Bring every drop of water you will drink; none is claimed here. Hunting seasons run on this property.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4 ft.
Fire & smoke — around South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1NIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1 · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- OOutfitter5 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- GGrocery6 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- @Mail7 mi
- DDump7 mi
- ShShower10 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- RxPharmacy16 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- WWater18 mi
- LLaundry18 mi
- AAir-up25 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 6 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1
Access
Dispersed
Land
South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources
Elevation
4 ft
Ground slope
13.1% · noticeable
State
SC
Coordinates
32.53351, -80.41165
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1 · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureFenwick Cut · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Two Sisters Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townSeabrook · ~0.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelenMarket · ~5.9 mi
- Propane / LPGBlue Flame · ~24.9 mi
- Dump station~6.7 mi · customers only
- GroceriesenMarket · ~5.9 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~16.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicLowcountry Urgent Care · ~16.1 mi
- HardwareEdisto Ace Hardware · ~6.5 mi
EV charging — from South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1 · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger26.3 mi straight-line NE — GOC GOC PUBLIC #2, Charleston, SC · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 34 within 50 · 84 within 100 · 204 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)27.8 mi — Hilton Head, SC - William Hilton Parkway - Tesla Supercharger, Hilton Head Island
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.0 mi — Wyndham Ocean Ridge - Marsh Point, Charleston, SC · Blink Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 420699 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1 · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~9.2 mi N · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~9.2 mi N · FWS
- RestroomDarrah Hall Restroom · ~13.8 mi SW · NPS
- Highway rest areaColleton Rest Area · ~27.9 mi NW
Coming out here — South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1 · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Fenwick Cut as a perennial stream, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 13.1% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
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How we know this — South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1
Area rules
Camping is not permitted on WMA lands except in designated camp sites.
Source
public land records
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Coordinate: SCDNR "SCDNR Public Lands Viewer" ArcGIS feature service, layer 0 "Property Asset Points", AssetType=CampPrim, AssetID=POI02520, PropertyID=675, queried 2026-08-15 -- https://services.arcgis.com/acgZYxoN5Oj8pDLa/arcgis/rest/services/DEV_-_SCDNR_Public_Lands_Viewer/FeatureServer/0 (this is the agency layer behind https://public-lands-scdnr.hub.arcgis.com/). It is SCDNR's own mapped campsite record, NOT a field visit. Land owner of record in that layer: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. County: Colleton. || SCDNR Managed Lands Regulations 8.1: "Camping is not permitted on WMA lands except in designated camp sites." (https://www.dnr.sc.gov/mlands/wmaregulations.html, read 2026-08-15). This point IS one of the agency's designated camp sites -- that is the legal basis for camping here. || Nearest incorporated place/CDP: Edisto Beach, 5.9 mi (US Census Bureau TIGERweb Places_CouSub_ConCity_SubMCD, state FIPS 45, queried 2026-08-15; straight-line distance to the place centroid, not road miles). | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — South Fenwick Island WMA Campsite 1
Finding water out here →Fire rules & restrictions →Reading your camp page →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →