“S” is for South Carolina National Heritage Corridor

“S” is for South Carolina National Heritage Corridor. The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor is a grassroots-led heritage tourism initiative that brings together communities throughout a fourteen county region from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Oconee County to the Atlantic Ocean along Charleston and Colleton Counties. In 1996 Congress designated it as a “national heritage area.” The Heritage Corridor is much more than a regional tourism promotion effort. Using heritage tourism principles, communities build on an existing amenity base through packaging their natural, cultural, and historic resources. In addition to Discovery Centers that help interpret and guide visitors to designated sites within each of the four regions of the Heritage Corridor, two parallel automotive routes run its length and tie together related attractions. The project is managed by the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism.