Kayak camping, tides & launches: Georgia & South Carolina Lowcountry
Georgia & South Carolina Lowcountry: Coastal paddling with 60 campsites, 281 boat launches and 291 tide stations, plus slack-water times for 259 tidal current stations. See them on the map, check today's tides and wind, or, with a Coast Map Pass, download the whole region (49 MB) to your phone for trips without signal.
Campsites
From OpenStreetMap, coloured on the map by what you need before staying. 7 mention boat, canoe or kayak access (馃浂). Always confirm fees, permits and closures with the operator.
Fee or reservation (13)
- Altamaha Regional Park
- Camp Tolochee
- Camping at James Island County Park 馃浂
- Coastal Georgia RV Resort
- Country Oaks Campground & Rv
- Horne Lake RV Park
- Huck's RV Park
- Hunting Island State Park Campground 馃浂
- Inland Harbor RV Park
- Skidaway Island State Park Campground 馃浂
- Southern Retreat RV Park
- Stafford
- Walkabout Camp & RV Park
Permit, protocol or private (1)
Free or backcountry (1)
Fees not recorded (check locally) (34)
- Black Creek Scout Reservation
- Blythe Island 馃浂
- Buckhall Campground
- Camp Glynn
- Camp Ho Non Wah
- Camp Jekyll
- Camp Villa Marie
- Camp Villa Marie
- Cypress Methodist Campground
- Edisto Beach State Park Beach Campground 馃浂
- Edisto Beach State Park Live Oak Campground 馃浂
- Elmwood Campground
- FLETC Campground
- Fort Barrington
- Group Camp 1
- Group Camp 2
- Group Camp 3
- Halfway Creek Trail Camp
- Hickory Hill
- Hilton Head Harbor RV Resort
- Holbrook Pond Campground
- Jekyll Island Campground 馃浂
- Lake Aire RV Park
- Lofton Creek Campground
- Point South / Yemassee Kampgrounds of America
- Primitive Group Camp (Youth)
- River's End Campground and RV Park
- Saint Paul Campground
- Sea Camp Campground
- Smyrna Farm Campground
- Tanager Woods RV Campground
- Thousand Trails Oaks at Point South
- Tuck In The Wood Campground
- Yankee Paradise
Tide stations
Highs and lows for the next year, the 24-hour tide curve, wind and the marine forecast.
- 2.5 miles above mouth
- 8 miles above mouth
- Abbapoola Creek entrance
- Air Station Beaufort, McCalleys creek
- Airy Hall Plantation
- Albergottie Creek, Rt. 21 bridge
- Allied Chemical Corp. docks
- Ashepoo
- Ashepoo-Coosaw Cutoff, ICWW
- Back River Reservoir, West Branch
- Bacon Bridge
- Bailey Cut, 0.8 mile west of
- Baileys Landing, Okatee River, Colleton River
- Barbour Island, Barbour Island River
- Battery Creek, 4 mi. above entrance
- Beach Creek ent., Cumberland Island
- Beach Hammock
- Bear River Entrance
- Bear River, (Range 'A' Light)
- Beaufort
- Belfast, Belfast River
- Bellville Point, Sapelo River
- Below Spring Bluff
- Ben Sawyer Bridge, ICWW
- Big Paradise Island
- Blackbeard Creek, Blackbeard Island
- Blackbeard Island
- Blessing Plantation, East Branch
- Bloody Point, Daufuskie Island
- Bluff Islands
- Bluff Plantation
- Bluff Point
- Bluffton
- Bonneau Ferry, East Branch
- Bowles Island, New Chehaw River
- Braddock Point, Hilton Head Island
- Bradley Point, Bradley River
- Breach Inlet, Isle of Palms
- Briars Creek ent., Wimbee Creek, Bull River
- Brickyard Ferry, swing bridge
- Brickyard Point, Brickyard Creek
- Brighton Beach. May River
- Broad Creek, Hilton Head Island
- Broughton Point, Hazzard Creek
- Brown Island, South Santee River
- Buck Hall, Awendaw Creek
- Buffalo River entrance
- Bull Creek, Bull Island South, Cooper River
- Bull Island North
- Cainhoy
- Calibogue Cay, Broad Creek, Hilton Head Island
- Callawassie Creek, Colleton River
- Callawassie Island Bridge, Colleton River
- Callawassie Island, south, Colleton River
- Canaday Landing, south of, Edisto River
- Cane Patch Creek entrance
- Cape Romain
- Capers Creek, Cowen Creek, St. Helena Island
- Capers Creek, South Capers Island
- Capers Island, Trenchards Inlet
- Carters Dock, Big Bay Creek
- Casino Creek, ICWW
- Ceylon
- Champney Island, South Altamaha River
- CHARLESTON (Customhouse Wharf)
- Chechessee Bluff, Chechessee River
- Chester, Bells River
- Church Creek bridge
- Clouter Creek, north entrance
- Clouter Creek, south entrance
- Club Bridge Creek ent., Trenchards Inlet
- Coffee Bluff, Forest River
- Colleton River Entrance
- Cook Landing Cemetery
- Corning Landing, Whale Branch
- Cosgrove Bridge
- Cowen Creek, Rt. 21 bridge
- Crandall
- Creighton Narrows Entrance, Crescent River
- Crispen Island
- Crooked River, Cumberland Dividings
- Cuckolds Creek
- Cumberland Wharf, Cumberland River
- CUT 1N FRONT RANGE, ST MARYS RIVER ENTR
- Dallas Bluff, Julienton River
- Darien, Darien River
- Daufuskie Landing, Daufuskie Island
- Dawho Bridge, Dawho River
- Dawho River
- Daymark #156, Head of Mud River
- Dillard Creek
- Distant Island Creek, upper end, Cowen Creek
- Distant Island, Cowen Creek
- Dog Hammock, Sapelo River
- Doughboy Island
- Dover Bluff, Dover Creek
- Drayton, Bee's Ferry
- Duck Island
- Dupont, Dean Hall
- Eagle Creek, Mud River
- Eagle Neck, South Newport River
- Edding Point, Edding Creek
- Edisto Beach, Edisto Island
- Edisto Marina, Big Bay Creek entrance
- Egg Islands
- Elliott Cut entrance
- Euhaw Creek, 2.5 mi. above entrance
- Fenwick Island
- Fernandina Beach, Amelia River
- Fields Cut, Wright River
- Fields Point
- Five Fathom Creek entrance
- Florida Passage, Bear River
- Florida Passage, Ogeechee River
- Floyd Creek, 2.8 miles above entrance
- Folly Creek, Hwy. 171 bridge
- Folly Island (outer coast)
- Folly River Bridge, Folly Island
- Folly River, north, Folly Island
- Fort Fremont
- Fort Jackson
- Fort Johnson
- Fort McAllister, Ogeechee River
- Fort Pulaski, Savannah River Entrance
- Fort Sumter
- Frederica River
- Frederica River Bridge
- Fripps Inlet, Hunting Island Bridge
- General Dynamics Pier
- Good Hope Landing, south of
- Goose Creek entrance
- Greggs Landing, Mateeba Gardens
- Haig Point, Daufuskie Island, Cooper River
- Halfmoon Reef, Halfmoon River
- Halfmoon, Timmons River
- Hamlin Creek, Isle of Palms
- Hamlin Sound
- Hampton River entrance
- Hanahan, Turkey Creek, Goose Creek
- Harbor River Bridge
- Harbor River entrance
- Hargray Pier, Daufuskie Island
- Harrietts Bluff, Crooked River
- Harris Neck, Barbour Island River
- Highway bridge, Ogeechee River
- Highway bridge, South Brunswick River
- Ho-Non-Wah Boy Scout Camp, Bohicket Creek
- Hobcaw Point
- Hollywood, Wadmalaw River
- Hope Creek, Edisto River
- Howe Street Pier, Brunswick
- Hudson Creek entrance
- Hutchinson Island
- Hwy. 170 bridge
- I-526 bridge
- Isle of Hope, Skidaway River
- Isle of Palms Pier
- Jack Creek entrance
- Jacksonboro Camp
- James Island Creek, 1 mi. above ent.
- Jekyll Island Marina, Jekyll Creek
- Jenkins Creek, 1 mi. above entrance
- Jenkins Creek, Polawana Island
- Johns Island, Church Creek
- Johnson Creek Bridge, Hunting Island
- Jointer Island, Jointer Creek
- Jones Creek entrance, Hampton River
- Kiawah River Bridge
- Kilkenny Club, Kilkenny Creek
- Kings Bay, MSF Pier
- Kings Bay, Navy Base
- Kingsley Creek, RR. bridge
- Leadenwah Creek, 3 mi. above entrance
- Limehouse Bridge
- Little Back River, Hwy. 17, Back River, S.C.
- Little St. Marys River
- Little Wassaw Island, Green Island Sound
- Lobeco, Whale Branch
- Lofton, Lanceford Creek
- Lower Toogoodoo Creek, 2 mi. above entrance
- Lucy Point Creek entrance
- Mackay River (Daymark 239)
- Mackay River (ICWW), Buttermilk Sound
- Magnolia Gardens
- Marine Corps Air Station, Brickyard Creek
- McClellanville, Jeremy Creek
- Moores Landing, ICWW, Sewee Bay
- Moreland Cemetery
- Musselboro Island, Mosquito Creek
- North Charleston, Ashley river
- North Dawson Landing, Coosawhatchie River
- North Dewees Island, Capers Inlet
- North entrance
- North Newport River
- North Newport River (Daymark 119)
- North Santee Bridge
- Nowell Creek
- Oak Branch, Bohicket Creek
- Ocella Creek, 2 mi. above entrance
- Old Capers Landing, Santee Pass, Capers Island
- Old Rice Mill, West Branch
- Old Tea Kettle Creek (Daymark 173)
- Old Tower, Sapelo Island
- Otter Island
- Park Island, Tom Point Creek
- Parker Island, Horlbeck Creek
- Parris Island, Marine Corps Recruit Depot
- Penny Creek, south of, Edisto River
- Pennys Creek, west entrance
- Peters Point, St. Pierre Creek
- Pilot Island, West Branch Boyds Creek
- Pimlico, West Branch
- Pinckney Island, Mackay Creek, Chechessee River
- Pine Harbor, Sapelo River
- Pine Island, Ramshorn Creek, Cooper River
- Pine Landing
- Pleasant Hill Landing, Santee River
- Point of Pines
- Port Royal Plantation, Hilton Head Island
- Port Wentworth
- Price Creek, North Capers Island
- Priest Landing, Wilmington River
- Purrysburg Landing, S.C.
- Quinby Creek bridge, East Branch
- Raccoon Key Spit
- Richmond Plantation, East Branch
- Rockdedundy River (Daymark 185)
- Rockville, Bohicket Creek
- Romerly Marsh Creek
- Roses Bluff, Bells River
- RR. Bridge, Hall Island
- Rt. 170 bridge
- S.C.L. RR. bridge
- Sams Point, Lucy Point Creek
- Sandblasters, Pennys Creek
- Savage I., Savage Creek, Bull Creek
- SAVANNAH
- Savannah Sheraton Resort Hotel
- Seabrook
- Seacamp Dock, Cumberland Island
- Sheldon, Huspa Creek, Whale Branch
- Shem Creek
- Shipyard Creek, 0.8 mile above entrance.
- Skidaway Institute, Skidaway River
- Skull Creek, north entrance, Hilton Head Island
- Skull Creek, south entrance, Hilton Head Island
- Snake Island
- Snow Point, 0.4 mi. North of
- South Ashley Bridge
- South Dewees Island, Dewees Inlet
- South Newport Cut, N. Newport River
- South Newport River (Daymark 135)
- South Santee River, ICWW, 4 Mi Canal Creek
- St. Marys
- St. Marys Entrance, North Jetty
- St. Simons Light
- St. Simons Sound Bar
- Station Creek, County Landing
- Station Creek, west end
- Steamboat Landing, Steamboat Creek
- Sullivans Island (outer coast)
- Summerhouse Point, Bull River
- Sunbury, Medway River
- The Cove, Fort Moultrie
- Thomas Landing, S. Newport River
- Threemile Cut entrance, Darien River
- Thunderbolt
- Todd Creek entrance
- Toogoodoo Creek, 2 mi. above entrance
- Tulifiny River, I-95 bridge
- Turnbridge Landing, Salt Water Creek
- Tybee Creek entrance
- Tybee Light
- U.S. 17 Bridge
- U.S. Highway 17 bridge, South Santee River
- Vaughns Landing
- Vernon View, Burnside River
- Village Creek Cemetery
- Village Creek Entrance
- Walburg Creek entrance
- Wappoo Creek, highway bridge
- Whale Branch entrance
- Wharf Creek entrance
- White House Woods, Mosquito Creek
- Wiggins, Chehaw River
- Willtown Bluff, Edisto River
- Windsor Plantation, Russel Creek
- Wolf Island, south end
- Woodville
- Yeamans Hall, Goose Creek
- Yonges Island
Tidal currents and slack water
- 610 Statute Mile Mark
- Anneville, marker 36
- Ashepoo Coosaw Cutoff, ICW marker 169
- Ashepoo Coosaw Cutoff, ICW marker 181
- Ashepoo Coosaw Cutoff, south end
- Ashepoo River, off Jefford Creek
- Ashley River Memorial Bridge, Highway 17
- Back River entrance
- Back River entrance
- Bar
- Bar Channel
- Battery, southwest of
- Bay Point Island, S of, Broad River entrance
- Beaufort Airport, Beaufort River
- Beaufort River Entrance
- Beaufort, Beaufort River
- Bennis Range, Buoy 31
- Bennis Range, Buoy 34
- Bloody Pt., 0.5 mile north of, New River
- Bloody Pt., 0.5 mile west of, New River
- Bonneau Ferry, east of
- Boyd Creek Entrance, SE of, Broad River
- Braddock Point, SW of, Calibogue Sound
- Bradley Point, NNE of
- Brickyard Creek
- Broad River Bridge, S of, Broad River
- Broad River Entrance, Point Royal Sound
- Broughton Island (south)
- Brunswick River Bridge, southeast of
- Brunswick River, off Quarantine Dock
- Brunswick, off Prince Street Dock
- Bull River, 2 miles below hwy. bridge
- Burkmeyer Bech, Beaufort River
- Burnside Island, SE of, Burnside River
- Burntpot Island, west of, Skidaway River
- Buzzard Roost Creek
- Cabin Bluff, Cumberland River
- Castle Pinckney, 0.4 mile south of
- Castle Pinckney, 0.6 mile southwest of
- Cedar Hammock, south of
- Charleston Harbor (off Fort Sumter)
- Charleston Hbr. ent. (between jetties)
- Childsbury, S.A.L. RR. bridge
- Chowan Creek
- Combahee River entrance
- Combahee River, S. of Fields Point
- Coosaw Island, South of, Morgan River
- Crescent River
- Cumberland River, north entrance
- Customhouse Reach
- Customhouse Reach, off Customhouse
- Daniel Island Bend
- Daniel Island Reach, Buoy 47A
- Daniel Island Reach, Buoy 48
- Daufuskie Landing Light, south of
- Daws Island, SE of, Broad River
- Daws Island, south of, Chechessee River
- Deveaux Banks, off North Edisto River entrance
- Doboy Island (North River)
- Drayton, Railroad Bridge
- Drum Island Reach, marker 45
- Drum Island, 0.2 mile above
- Drum Island, 0.4 mile SSE of
- Drum Island, east of (bridge)
- Drum Point Island, Range D Channel
- Duck Island, Marker 15
- Dutch Island, SE of, Skidaway River
- East Branch, 0.2 mile above entrance
- Egg Bank, St. Helena Sound
- Elba Island Cut, NE of, Savannah River
- Elba Island, NE of, Savannah River
- Elba Island, west of, Savannah River
- Elliott Cut, west end
- Entrance
- Entrance
- Entrance
- Entrance, north of channel
- Entrance, off Beach Hammock
- Entrance, off Wassaw Island
- Entrance, south of channel
- Fenwick Island Cut, South Edisto River
- Fernandina Beach, City Front Reach, Amelia River
- Fig Island, north of, Back River
- Filbin Creek Reach
- Filbin Creek Reach, 0.2 mile east of
- Filbin Creek Reach, Buoy 58
- Florida Passage (south)
- Florida Passage, N of, Ogeechee River
- Folly I. Channel, N of Ft. Johnson
- Folly River and Cardigan River, between
- Fort Clinch, 1.1 n.mi. NW of
- Fort Pulaski
- Fort Pulaski, 1.8 miles above
- Fort Pulaski, 4.8 miles above
- Fort Sumter Range, Buoy 10
- Fort Sumter Range, Buoy 14
- Fort Sumter Range, Buoy 16
- Fort Sumter Range, Buoy 18
- Fort Sumter Range, Buoy 22
- Fripps Inlet, Fripps Island
- Front River
- Ft. Sumter, 0.6 n.mi. NW of
- Goshen Point, SE of, Wadmalaw River
- Goshen Point, south of, Wadmalaw River
- Hagan Island, 1 n.mi. below
- Haig Point Light, NW of, Cooper River
- Hilton Head
- Hog Island Channel
- Hog Island Reach, Buoy 38
- Hog Island Reach, SW of Remley Point
- Horlbeck Creek, 0.2 mile above entrance
- Horse Reach
- Hutchinson Island, N. of, Ashepoo River
- Isle of Hope City, SE of, Skidaway River
- Isle of Hope City, Skidaway River
- Jehossee Island, S tip, South Edisto River
- Jekyll Creek, south entrance
- Joe's Cut, Wilmington River
- Johns Island Airport, south of
- Johns Island Bridge
- Johns Island. Main Road Bridge
- Johnson Creek, midway between ends
- King Island, west of
- Kings Bay, North Turning Basin
- Kings Bay, Site VI
- Kings Island Channel, Savannah River
- Kingsley Creek, highway bridge
- Lazaretto Creek Entrance, N of, Bull River
- Lemon Island South, Chechessee River
- Little Barnwell I., E of, Whale Branch River
- Little Don Island, east of, Vernon River
- Little Egg Island, northwest of
- Little Mud River Range
- Little Ogeechee River Entrance
- Little Ogeechee River Entrance, north of
- Little St. Simon Island (north)
- Little Wassaw Island, SW of
- Long Island, NNE of, Skidaway River
- Long Island, south of, Skidaway River
- Lower Town Creek Reach
- MacKay Creek, south entrance
- Mackay R., 0.5 mi. N of Troup Creek entrance
- McQueen Island Cut
- Medway River at Marsh Island
- Medway River, northwest of Cedar Point
- Montgomery, Vernon River
- Moreland, 0.5 n.mi. below
- Morgan Island, NE of, Coosaw River
- Morgan Island, North end, Coosaw River
- N. Newport River, above Walburg Creek
- N. Newport River, ESE of S. Newport Cut
- N. Newport River, NE of Vandyke Creek
- N. Newport River, NW of Johnson Creek
- New Teakettle Cr., 0.8 mi. N of
- North Charleston
- North Edisto River entrance
- North Jetty, 0.8 mile southeast of
- North of Big Tom Creek Entrance
- North River at Darien River
- Northwest of Newell Creek Entrance
- Nowell Creek entrance
- Nowell Creek, Southeast of
- Oatland Island, north tip
- Odingsell River Entrance
- off Amoco Pier
- Old Fernandina, Amelia River, Old Town Reach
- Old Teakettle Creek (north)
- Old Teakettle Creek (south)
- Old Teakettle Creek Entrance, south of
- Onemile Cut, 1 mile southeast of
- Ordnance Reach
- Parris Island Lookout Tower, Broad River
- Parris Island, east of, Beaufort River
- Parris Island, north of, Beaufort River
- Parrot Creek, Coosaw Island
- Pelican Bank, St. Helena Sound
- Pigeon Island, SSE of, Skidaway River
- Pine Island, South Edisto River
- Pleasant Point
- Port Royal Plantation Tower, east of
- Port Wentworth, 0.2 mile above
- Quarantine Reach, 0.4nm W of Fort Clinch
- Raccoon Key
- Raccoon Key & Egg Island Shoal, between
- Ramshorn Creek Light, E of, Cooper River
- Range A, LB 23, St Marys River
- Range A2, LB 29, Cumberland Sound
- Range E, LB 43, Cumberland Sound
- Rathall Creek entrance
- Rebellion Reach, 0.8 n.mi. N. of Ft. Sumter
- Remley Point, 0.2 mile northwest of
- S. Newport River, above Swain River Ent
- S. Newport River, below S. Newport Cut
- Sampson Island, NE end, South Edisto Riv.
- Sampson Island, S end, South Edisto Riv.
- Sams Point, Northeast of, Coosaw River
- Sapelo River Entrance
- Savannah
- Savannah River Entrance (between jetties)
- Savannah, southeast of highway bridge
- Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
- Shipyard Creek entrance
- Shutes Folly Island, 0.4 mile west of
- Skidaway Island, N End, Wilmington River
- Skidaway Narrows
- Skidaway River, north entrance
- Skull Creek, north entrance
- Skull Creek, south entrance
- Smuggedy Swamp, South Edisto River
- Snake Island
- Snow Point, 0.5 mile north of
- South Chan., 0.4 mi. NW of Ft. Johnson
- South Chan., 0.8 mi. ENE of Ft. Johnson
- South Channel, Buoy 4
- South Channel, western end
- South Edisto River entrance
- south jetty
- South Jetty, break in
- South of Kilkenny Creek Entrance
- South River
- Southeast Channel, Buoy 8
- Spanish Wells, Calibogue Sound
- St Marys Entrance, LB 13
- St Marys Entrance, LB 19
- St. Catherines Sound Entrance
- St. Mary's River Entrance
- Stafford Island, west of
- State Hwy. 7 bridge
- Stono Inlet
- Sutherland Bluff, Sapelo River
- The Cove, entrance on the Cove Range
- The Tee
- The Tee, 0.4 mile southwest of
- Thunderbolt, SE of, Wilmington River
- Town Creek, 0.2 mile above bridge
- Trestle Ruins, marker 6A
- Turtle River, off Allied Chemical Corp
- Turtle River, off Andrews Island
- Vernon R., 1.2 miles S of Possum Point
- Wadmalaw Island, Wadmalaw River entrance
- Walls Cut, Turtle Island
- Wando River Upper Reach, Turning Basin
- Wappoo Creek entrance
- Wassaw Island, N of E end, Wassaw Sound
- Wassaw Island, SSW of
- West Marsh Island, 0.1 mile east of
- Whale Branch River
- White Point, south of, Dawho River
- Whooping Island, Dawho River
- Williman Creek
- Wilmington Island, SSE of, Bull River
- Wilmington R. ent., south channel
- Wilmington R., 0.5 mi. S of Turners Creek
- Wilmington River ent. off Cabbage Island
- Woods Point
- Woods Point, SE of
- Wright R., 0.2 mile above Walls Cut
- Yellow House Creek
- Yellow House Landing, 1 mile NW of
Boat launches
- 75 ton Tavelift
- Abercorn Creek Boat Ramp
- Boat Ramp
- Boat Ramp - Private
- Buckhall Landing
- C.C. Haigh, Jr. Boat Landing
- Cohen's Bluff Landing
- Dawson Landing
- Fields Point Boat Ramp
- Fort Barrington Landing
- Fort McAllister Park Boat Ramp
- Fort McAllister Public Boat Ramp
- Houlihan Boat Ramp
- Isle of Armstrong Boat Ramp
- Jekyll Island Boat Ramp
- K. Hovnanian's Four Seasons Slipway
- Kayak Launch
- Kayak Launch - Alley 3
- King's Ferry Boat Ramp
- Lakeside Boat Ramp
- Lazaretto Creek Boat Ramp
- Long Bridge Rd Boat Ramp
- Long Creek Landing
- Madere's Landing
- Mars Old Field Landing
- Moreland Landing
- Old Chehaw Landing
- Pole Yard Public Boat Landing
- Remley's Point Boat Landing
- Russ Point Boat Landing
- Shem Creek Landing
- Simmons Landing
- Station 26 Boat Landing
- Sweetwater Charleston Boat Slipway
- Wadboo Bridge Landing
- Wappoo Cut Public Boat Ramp
- Weeks Landing
- Willtown Bluff Boat Ramp
Plus 243 unnamed launches on the map.
Marine forecast areas
Charleston Harbor 路 Coastal waters from Altamaha Sound to Fernandina Beach FL out 20 NM 路 Coastal waters from Edisto Beach SC to Savannah GA out 20 NM 路 Coastal waters from Fernandina Beach to St. Augustine FL out 20 NM 路 Coastal waters from Savannah GA to Altamaha Sound GA out 20 nm, including Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary 路 Coastal waters from South Santee River to Edisto Beach SC out 20 NM
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