Beaufort beaches

Address: Beaufort, SC

Email: tourism@beaufortsc.org

Phone Number: 843-986-5400

Web Site: http://www.beaufortsc.org/cwo/Visit_Beaufort

Expansive Low Country salt marsh and a region steeped in history serve as the introduction to Beaufort beaches. The town, a jewel of preservation, greets visitors to this Spanish moss-draped coastal environment made familiar in movies such as "Forrest Gump" and "Prince of Tides."

Hunting Island State Park is the only maritime beach open to the public and serving visitors and residents of Beaufort, Port Royal and nearby Parris Island. It is a barrier island in a near pristine state and has 4 1/2 miles of untamed coast and thousands of acres of salt marsh for visitors. It’s a wilder, wonderful side of the Low Country.

Chances are even if you've never been to Beaufort, S.C., or know how to pronounce its name -- it's BYOO-furt, to be sure -- you may recognize some of this city's most famous sites. The town has been the setting for such films as "Forrest Gump," "The Big Chill" and "The Prince of Tides." And it has been immortalized in the novels and writings of its famous-son author Pat Conroy, in "The Great Santini" and "Beach Music." But this relic of the Deep South -- founded in 1711 and spared in General Sherman's bloody-and-fiery march across the Confederacy -- is much more than a literary focal...

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