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In June 1994, Kylee Mueller sold 125 acres (0.51 km 2) of the remaining 21,000 acres (85 km 2) of the Buist Tract to Horry County Schools for development of Carolina Forest Elementary School, Carolina Forest Middle School, and Carolina Forest High School. In addition, 350 acres (1.4 km 2) were sold to form a golf course and residential property.
Congaree National Park is a 26,692.6-acre (41.7 sq mi; 108.0 km 2) national park of the United States in central South Carolina, 18 miles southeast of the state capital, Columbia. The park preserves the largest tract of old growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States.
[14] [15] The paving of the first section of International Drive, connecting Carolina Forest to Grissom Parkway, was completed in 2004. [ 16 ] In April 2009, the area's worst fire in 30 years burned 2000 acres of the preserve [ 17 ] and over 19,000 acres total, [ 18 ] though controlled burns saved another 1000 acres.
The State of South Carolina has a group of protected areas managed by the South Carolina State Park Service (often abbreviated to SCPRT or Park Service).Formed in 1933 in conjunction with the formalization of the federal Civilian Conservation Corps program, the State Park Service is administered by the state's Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism (SCPRT).
Rendezvous Mountain State Park is a 1,800-acre (7.3 km 2) [2] North Carolina state park in Purlear, North Carolina. It was originally established as North Carolina's third state park. [4] From 1984 to early 2022, the park was operated by the North Carolina Forest Service as Rendezvous Mountain Educational State Forest. [4] [2]
Congaree National Park, South Carolina 242,049 recreation visits Congaree National Park’s landscape is “defined by the presence of both flood and flame,” the Park Service says.
The U.S. Forest Service said it had contained all reported fires within the North Carolina's national parks after responding to wildfires within all four national parks located in the state. The ...
Park Name Web-site Region County or Counties Size Year Established Status Remarks Carolina Beach State Park: Coast New Hanover [2]: 761 acres (3.08 km 2) [3] [4]: 1969 [2]: Open