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Keowee-Toxaway State Park is a state park in Pickens County, South Carolina. It was created in 1970 along the shores of Lake Keowee from lands previously owned by Duke Power. [1] The Keowee-Toxaway Museum includes exhibits about the area Cherokee Indians and their interactions with local settlers. There are four interpretive kiosks along one ...
The 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) Keowee-Toxaway State Park was created by a partnership between Duke Energy and the state of South Carolina. It consists of three different parks: 155 acres (0.63 km 2 ) Mile Creek Park, 40 acres (0.16 km 2 ) South Cove Park, and the 44 acres (0.18 km 2 ) High Falls Park.
Keowee-Toxaway State Park: Pickens 1,000 400 1970 1975 Kings Mountain State Park: Cherokee, York 6,885 2,786 1934 1936 Lake Greenwood State Park: Greenwood 914 370 1938 1940 Lake Hartwell State Park: Oconee 680 280 1976 1985 Lake Warren State Park: Hampton 440 180 1980 1990 Lake Wateree State Park: Fairfield 238 96 1982 1985 Landsford Canal ...
The park features a lodge built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) that includes a kitchen and a 72-seat dining room. [5] There are two park lakes that accommodate seasonal swimming and hiking trails that lead to Mill Creek Falls, the Pinnacle Mountain summit (two routes), and Table Rock summit.
Jocassee Dam (often called Lake Jocassee Dam) is an embankment dam on the Keowee River, straddling the border of Pickens and Oconee counties in South Carolina in the United States. The dam forms Lake Jocassee , which is fed by the Toxaway , Thompson, Horsepasture and Whitewater Rivers, and serves primarily for hydroelectric power generation and ...
Previously, the Keowee-Toxaway basin experienced drought with the Upstate from October to January 2024. The fall 2024 drought declaration marks the third since the relicensing in 2016. One drought ...
H. Cooper Black Jr. Memorial Field Trial and Recreation Area is a state park located near the town of Cheraw in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.It is the only South Carolina state park available for field trials and retriever competitions.
Devils Fork State Park is in northwestern South Carolina on the eastern edge of the Sumter National Forest at the edge of 7,500-acre (3,035 ha) Lake Jocassee.It is located three miles (5 km) off SC 11, the Cherokee Scenic Highway, near the town of Salem, South Carolina.