Gist Brdg. Boat Ramp (FR 328) in SC -- Camping Rules & Access
Gist Brdg. Boat Ramp (FR 328) in SC
Dispersed camping corridorFrancis Marion and Sumter NFs
7.9 mi from Buffalo
Maps 443 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 0.3 miles of this road are maintained for passenger-car comfort, paved the whole way.
- Near Calhoun Experimental Forest.
- Terrain estimates suggest level ground alongside most of this road; parking areas are not verified.
- Dead-end road; turnaround space is not mapped.
Setting
Limited privacy
- Limited separation from through roads or other sites here, with the nearest through road 0.0 miles off.
- Tyger River runs 0.2 mi 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 48–75°F, 3.3″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.