Echaw (FR 204) in SC -- Camping Rules & Access
Echaw (FR 204) in SC
Dispersed camping corridorFrancis Marion and Sumter NFs, Wambaw/Witherbee Ranger District
17 mi from Awendaw
Maps 28 ft
Designated sites only
Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests ↗
Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days
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Road Access
Moderate
- 6.7 of this road’s 19.1 miles are maintained for high-clearance vehicles, mostly gravel with 4.9 miles of dirt.
- Terrain estimates suggest level ground alongside most of this road; parking areas are not verified.
- Winds through 3 switchbacks.
- Dead-end road; turnaround space is not mapped.
Setting
Fairly secluded
- Well separated here, with the nearest through road 1.4 miles off.
- Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
- A pond lies 1.1 mi off.
- Estimated night sky: Bortle 2, true dark-sky territory.
Rules
- 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
Climate averages
October normals 56–77°F, 4.7″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.