Wildcat Br.(south End) (FR 347) in SC -- Camping Rules & Access
Wildcat Br.(south End) (FR 347) in SC
Dispersed camping corridorFrancis Marion and Sumter NFs
8.4 mi from Buffalo
Maps 502 ft
Designated sites only
Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests ↗
Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days
VerizonNONE
AT&TNONE
T-MobileWEAK
StarlinkFAIR
Road Access
Easy
- All 1.9 miles of this road are maintained for passenger cars, gravel the whole way.
- Near Cross Keys School.
- Terrain estimates suggest level ground alongside most of this road; parking areas are not verified.
- Winds through 3 switchbacks.
- 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 49–74°F, 3.3″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.