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Highlights include an accessible fishing pier and a boat ramp for non-motorized boats. The Lick Fork Lake Hiking Trail is an easy two mile loop surrounding the lake that provides scenic view of piedmont pines and hardwoods. Horn Creek Trail journeys away from the recreation area and allows hikers and bikers to explore more of the forest.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd499617.pdf
From the square in downtown Edgefield, travel south on Hwy 23 for 8.3 miles. Bear left onto Hwy 230 and travel for .4 miles. Turn left onto Lick Fork Lake Road (S 19-263), and travel 1.9 miles. Entrance is on right.
$3 day use fee per vehicle, $7 per campsite per night, Self-serve fee station, Campsites are first come-first serve
Stay is limited to 14 days. Shooting is not permitted within 300-yards of the recreation area. South Carolina fishing and boating regulations apply.
Quiet and peaceful, in part due to almost no cell phone reception 😀. 2 walking trails, plus a small lake for kayaking and fishing, campsites and pavillions for cooking out. However, trails and some facilities are not well maintained. About half of the Horn Creek trail was overgrown, and there were lots of tree falls that blocked the trail in spots. Local boy scout packs do service projects here to fix the trails periodically. I still rate it highly because of the peace and quiet and the woodland scenery. We saw 3 different varieties of butterflies, birds and even a tree snail. If not for the size of our group and the dogs we had with us, I would have expected to see deer.
Very peaceful and beautiful view. Just got home and already miss the camp. We were the only ones there and still loved it.
I love this place. Although they have NO running water and NO electric available to campers... I still love this place. I stayed for 5 days and then 3 days and it was great. No one was there! I was the only one camping in the entire campground. It is a great place. $7 a night is a great price as well! It is a wonderful place to dry camp for days and not far at all from Edgefield, S.C. or North Augusta, S.C. great place and ready to go back next season.... I love this place. I would like to be the Campground Host one-day, next season would be nice! 😁🙂
If you want remote tent camping, this fits the bill. No electric hookups means no RV's running generators and such at night. Quiet a night but during the day, especially late afternoon, quite a few cars and trucks coming through to fish.
Suffering from neglect due to staffing and funding shortages, examples by others include the beach area gone, trail system broken bridges. There is no night lights at all, which can be good, or make it seem less secure. The bike-horse trail at 6 miles does seem to be kept up.
If you want cell service, you might get a text out but that's about it. There may be a water source but I wouldn't trust it for drinking, so bring in or boil your water. A ton of tables for picnicing. Also interesting to see all the original Corp of Engineers brickwork that still exist here.
I think there is 9 campsites, 3 along the lake and 6 nearby.
And bring cash to pay for the camping and dayuse fees, which is $7 for camping per night and $3 for day use.
This is a lovely site but has been neglected. The restroom building near the camp sites was reasonably clean and had an ample supply of toilet paper but most most other aspects of upkeep such as mowing have been neglected; what used to be a Sandy beach at the edge of the water is now grass and weeds. Tried taking some kids hiking on the trail around the pond but it was severely overgrown and in some places no longer possible to even see where the trail used to be. Given its quiet, out of the way location, this would be a fantastic gem if it were properly maintained.
Bring even change to pay the $3 day use or $7 camping fee in the honor-system envelopes.
