Collins Creek (FR 393) in SC -- Camping Rules & Access
Collins Creek (FR 393) in SC
Dispersed camping corridorFrancis Marion and Sumter NFs
5.8 mi from Whitmire
Maps 426 ft
Designated sites only
Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests ↗
Motor-vehicle season 9/15–12/31Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days
VerizonWEAK
AT&TNONE
T-MobileNONE
StarlinkFAIR
Road Access
Easy
- All 3.8 miles of this road are maintained for passenger cars, gravel the whole way.
- Near Jew's Harp Spring.
- Terrain estimates suggest level ground alongside most of this road; parking areas are not verified.
- Dead-end road; turnaround space is not mapped.
Setting
Fairly secluded
- Well separated here, with the nearest through road 0.7 miles off.
- Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
- Estimated night sky: Bortle 2, true dark-sky territory.
Rules
- 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 50–75°F, 3.3″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.