Charity Church A (FR 179A) in SC

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

6.3 mi from Awendaw

Designated sites only

Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days

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Easy

All 1.1 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.
Dead-end road with a mapped turnaround at the end.
A gate at the start of the road.

Limited privacy

Limited separation from through roads or other sites here, with the nearest through road 0.0 miles off.
Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
Estimated night sky: Bortle 3, a dark rural sky.

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 58–77°F, 4.6″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.

Charity Church A (FR 179A) in SC -- Camping Rules & Access