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Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing)
Dispersed · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC · 33.91127, -78.71527
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THE PIN IS A BOAT LANDING, NOT A CAMPSITE. Camping on the Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve is legal only on the riverbanks and sandbars, reached on foot or by boat, five consecutive nights maximum in any one spot. Sandbars move and flood -- read the river, not the map. No potable water anywhere out there.
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Weather outlook — at Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing)
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Everything you need — measured from Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing) · 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
- GGrocery2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- FFuel2 mi
- MMechanic2 mi
- RxPharmacy2 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- EVEV fast charger6 mi
- LLaundry6 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- ShShower7 mi
- +Urgent care8 mi
- WWater14 mi
- AAir-up14 mi
- DDump47 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 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 — Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing)
Access
Dispersed
Land
South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · dispersed
Elevation
16 ft
Ground slope
0.7% · flat
State
SC
Coordinates
33.91127, -78.71527
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing) · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWaccamaw River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townLongs · ~2.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelExxon · ~2.1 mi
- Propane / LPGCape Fear Propane · ~26.9 mi
- GroceriesFood Lion · ~1.9 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~5.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicMcLeod Seacoast · ~4.3 mi
- HardwareBoulineau's Ace Hardware · ~7.0 mi
EV charging — from Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing) · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.2 mi straight-line S — CircleK - Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, SC (at a convenience store) · CIRCLE_K · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-05-12 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach12 within 25 mi · 20 within 50 · 97 within 100 · 273 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)8.0 mi — North Myrtle Beach, SC - Tesla Supercharger, North Myrtle Beach
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO17.8 mi — FALCON CUSTOMER CHARGE, Myrtle Beach
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.4 mi — McLeod Seacoast, Little River, SC · FLO · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Jud Kuhn Chevrolet, Little River, 4.0 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for service center use only · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 328626 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing) · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaLittle River Welcome Center · ~6.9 mi E
- Highway rest areaBrunswick County Rest Area · ~18.3 mi E
Coming out here — Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing) · South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources · SC
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Waccamaw River as a perennial river, under 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 0.7% — flat. 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.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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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Who holds the land at Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing)
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve / Wildlife Management Area, manager on record: a state department of natural resources. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing)
Stay limit
5 nights (no more than five consecutive nights)
Source
public land records
Confidence
Thin — A single weak source put this here. Treat the location itself as unconfirmed, not just the details.
How it was placed
Coordinate: SCDNR "SCDNR Public Lands Viewer" ArcGIS feature service, layer 5 "Property Entrance", EntranceName="Chris Anderson Boat Landing", EntranceType=Primary, EntranceDescription=Boat, PropertyID=513, queried 2026-08-15 -- https://services.arcgis.com/acgZYxoN5Oj8pDLa/arcgis/rest/services/DEV_-_SCDNR_Public_Lands_Viewer/FeatureServer/5. THIS IS AN ACCESS POINT PUBLISHED BY THE AGENCY, NOT A CAMPSITE COORDINATE. County: Horry. || SCDNR Heritage Preserve Regulations (https://www.dnr.sc.gov/mlands/specregshp.html, read 2026-08-15): "Primitive camping only is allowed. Camping is allowed only along riverbanks and on sandbars; campers may approach only by backpacking or boat. A camper may remain in one location no more than five consecutive nights." The SCDNR properties layer flags this property Camping = "Yes". || Nearest incorporated place/CDP: Little River, 4.9 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).
== NIGHTSHIFT RE-VERIFIED 2026-08-20 (fire 1180, leftover backlog pass 6: TX/TN/MO/SC/VT) ==
HOLDS UP, NO CONTRADICTION. Re-queried SCDNR's own service https://services.arcgis.com/acgZYxoN5Oj8pDLa/arcgis/rest/services/DEV_-_SCDNR_Public_Lands_Viewer/FeatureServer on 2026-08-20 (layer 0 Property Asset Points where AssetType='CampPrim', 39 points statewide; layer 5 Property Entrance; layer 3 SCDNR Public Properties View). Entrance OBJECTID 247 is unchanged: EntranceName "Chris Anderson Boat Landing", PropertyID 513, EntranceType Primary, EntranceDescription Boat, PublicAccess "Open", Status "Active", PublicVisible "Yes", Comments "Managed Lands Directions (Website) Provides access to the Waccamaw HP/WMA", at exactly 33.911265, -78.715274. The properties layer flags PropertyID 513 "Waccamaw River HP and WMA" Camping = "Yes" and PublicAccess "Open". SCDNR Heritage Preserve Regulations https://www.dnr.sc.gov/mlands/specregshp.html (re-read 2026-08-20) still says under Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve, verbatim: "Primitive camping only is allowed. Camping is allowed only along riverbanks and on sandbars; campers may approach only by backpacking or boat. A camper may remain in one location no more than five consecutive nights." Every source agrees. DECISION: approved. THE PIN IS THE BOAT LANDING, NOT A CAMPSITE - you drive to this point, put in, and camp on a sandbar upstream or down. No potable water; do not drink the river.
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 Waccamaw River Heritage Preserve sandbar camping (Chris Anderson Boat Landing)
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