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Parson’s Mountain Recreation Area is located in the northern portion of the Long Cane Ranger District. It features a 28-acre man-made lake next to a 23-site campground. The area offers relaxation and solitude as well as easy access to a variety of recreation activities. Highlights include an accessible picnic area. The day use area was designed with an earthen pier, a pedestrian bridge and a boat ramp for non-motorized boats. The Parson’s Mountain Lake Trail and Parson’s Mountain Tower Trail incorporate the upstate’s rich history and diverse wildlife habitat. Click here for a printable guide and vicinity map.
From Anderson, travel south on Hwy 28 to the four way stop in Abbeville. Turn right and travel 3.3 miles to the intersection of Hwy 28 and Hwy 72. Continue on Hwy 28 for 2.1 miles.Turn left onto Parson’s Mtn. Road (S 1-251) and travel for 1.5 miles. Entrance is on the right.
Absolutely a beautiful place
Keep in mind it is primitive camping and you will love it!
This is my ULTIMATE PEACE GATHERING PLACE!! I wish it had more funding, I would help volunteer to the up keep!! Its lovely, swimming, camping, hiking, picnics, all available! Simply Beautiful!🌎😀🐦🐍🐢🐰🐸🐝🐌🐞🐜🐟🌸
Nicely maintained and usually totally not crowded with nice clean showers and bathrooms. Some shellers with tables and grills. Potable water sites. Swim area, shallow and somewhat hot in summer but nice for kids. Totally underused and underrated. Short hiking trails, limited fishing (again, more for kiddies entertainment not serious anglers). $2 fee for a very pleasant quiet day of hamburgers and splashing and drowning in sun or shade.
It seems like a very lovely place to hike, saw birds and reptiles in the short time we explored. The problem is it is poorly maintained. Trails that should be beautiful and peaceful are overgrown and hard to follow due to wide spacing of white blazes. It's certainly doable but you absolutely have to wear long pants and tuck them into your socks for sure. What a shame there arent more resources dedicated to this region. It's quite nice!
Love this place it is dear to my heart my family has enjoyed this park and camped for 45 plus years. But I can’t understand why they built new showers and nice bathrooms and then tore them down and put up little port-a-pots that are worth less and dangerous for kids this is a wonderful campground let’s put showers back and power at the sites . If we need to pay more we will do our part a lot of horse riders and motorcycle riders would use it if we had a way to clean up this is going down hill instead of improving for the public
