SUMMERVILLE AREA RECREATION
Left and below: Old Santee Canal State Park features America’s first summit canal returning
to its natural state, an Interpretive Center, an 1840 plantation house and historic exhibits.
At Stony Landing, a plantation
Visitors are welcome to take
house built in the 1840s has been
nature walks along Biggins Creek
restored and opened to the public
and explore the creek and swamps
for tours. The elegant, historically
in rented canoes. Wildlife in the
accurate restoration offers visitors
area includes ospreys, red-winged
a panoramic vista of the Tailrace
blackbirds, wild turkeys, white-
Canal, which flows out of Lake
tailed deer, frogs, turtles and, of
Moultrie. The plantation house,
course, alligators.
as well as the park’s Interpretive
Throughout the year, the park
Center and Learning Center, are
staff offers educational and other
available for rental for special
special programs. For information
events and ceremonies and are
on hours and admission fees, visit
popular sites for weddings.
www.OldSanteeCanalPark.org.

Today, much of the original canal
is submerged in the waters of Lake
Moultrie, but there is still much
to attract visitors eager to enjoy
the area’s great natural resources
and learn about the important role
this man-made waterway played in
South Carolina’s development.
The 195-acre park itself is situ-
ated where the remaining portion
of the southern section of the canal
joins Biggins Creek and its sur-
rounding swamps. Its prominent
landmark, Stony Landing, is a
high bluff where the Cooper River
begins its flow toward Charleston
and the Atlantic Ocean.
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