Duffs Branch (FR 397) in SC -- Camping Rules & Access

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Duffs Branch (FR 397) in SC

Dispersed camping corridorFrancis Marion and Sumter NFs

6.7 mi from Whitmire

Maps 510 ft

Designated sites only

Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests ↗

Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days
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Road Access

Easy
  • All 1.6 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; turnaround space is not mapped.

Setting

Some privacy
  • Moderately separated here.
  • Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
  • Estimated night sky: Bortle 3, a dark rural sky.

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
  • 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

Climate averages

October normals 50–74°F, 3.2″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.

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