Stewart (FR 344) in SC -- Camping Rules & Access
Stewart (FR 344) in SC
Dispersed camping corridorFrancis Marion and Sumter NFs
8.1 mi from Whitmire
Maps 525 ft
Designated sites only
Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests ↗
Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days
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Road Access
Rough
- 0.6 of this road’s 4.4 miles are maintained for high-clearance vehicles, mostly gravel with 0.6 miles of dirt.
- Terrain estimates suggest level ground alongside most of this road; parking areas are not verified.
- Dead-ends 1.1 miles in at a mapped turnaround.
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.
- Enoree River runs 1.1 mi off.
- 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.
- 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)
- Camping rules
Climate averages
October normals 49–75°F, 3.3″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.