Hills Creek (FR 345) in SC -- Camping Rules & Access
Hills Creek (FR 345) in SC
Dispersed camping corridorFrancis Marion and Sumter NFs
9.6 mi from Buffalo
Maps 620 ft
Designated sites only
Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests ↗
Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days
VerizonNONE
AT&TNONE
T-MobileNONE
StarlinkPOOR
Road Access
Moderate
- 0.1 of this road’s 2.7 miles are maintained for high-clearance vehicles, gravel the whole way.
- Near Cross Keys School.
- 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.
- 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
Climate averages
October normals 48–73°F, 3.3″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.