Caddell (FR 196) in SC

Dispersed camping corridorFrancis Marion and Sumter NFs, Wambaw/Witherbee Ranger District

7.1 mi from Bonneau Beach

Designated sites only

Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days

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Easy

All 0.3 miles of this road are maintained for passenger cars, gravel the whole way.
Terrain estimates suggest level ground alongside most of this road; parking areas are not verified.

Limited privacy

Limited separation from through roads or other sites here, with the nearest through road 0.0 miles off.
Estimated night sky: Bortle 4, a rural sky with a glow on the horizon.
Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
A pond lies 0.5 mi off.

Your permit must be approved before you can go dispersed camping. … Submit your permits at least 5 business days ahead of your planned dispersed camping visit … RV and car camping are not allowed as dispersed camping. … Camps should be at least 50 feet from water and trails, and 1/2 mile from any road or parking lot.
Permit: Permit required. (Long Cane, Enoree and Francis Marion ranger districts (dispersed camping))
Camping rules (Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests (forest-wide, all roads)) On the Andrew Pickens Ranger District, camping is allowed more than one quarter mile from any road and at least 50 feet from lakes, streams and maintained trails; On the Long Cane, Enoree and Francis Marion districts, primitive camping with a free permit at least one half mile from any road or parking lot.
Camping rules

Campfires are not allowed if the state has issued a “Red Flag Warning” (Primitive camping with permit)
Camp at least 50 ft from water source or trail. (Primitive camping with permit)
Pack it in, Pack it out: pack out all trash and bury human waste (Primitive camping with permit)
Current fire orders

October normals 55–77°F, 4.2″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.

Caddell (FR 196) in SC -- Camping Rules & Access