West Dam in SC -- Campground & RV Camping

West Dam Recreation Area is a wooded day-use park on the shores of J. Strom Thurmond Lake. Built among mixed pine and hardwood forest at an elevation of 335 feet, the site offers small picnic shelters for up to six people and a large group shelter accommodating 68. Amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, a playground, a swimming beach, and walking paths. Visitors have immediate access to 70,000 acres of open water for boating and swimming, as well as nearby trailheads for the 1.8-mile Lake Springs Loop and the 27-mile Bartram Trail.

Getting there: From Clarks Hill, SC, west on US 221, go across Thurmond Dam; area is on the Georgia side of the dam.

• Limited separation from through roads or other sites here, with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
• The Clarks Hill Lake shoreline is 0.1 mi off.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 4, a rural sky with a glow on the horizon.
• Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.