“101 Things to Do” is a free visitor magazine designed to not only give you ideas of how to spend your time, but to give you an appreciation for our land and our people.
Explore our 101 articles to get an insider’s look at things to do and places to go on Hilton Head Island, SC, and Bluffton, SC, as well as the mysterious Daufuskie Island and three of the country’s favorite historic cities: Beaufort, SC, Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA.
The Lowcountry
Our neck of the woods is commonly called the Lowcountry, a geographic area that stretches along coastal South Carolina and Georgia. It calls to mind miles of beaches, endless salt marshes, cotton and rice plantations canopied by old towering oak trees dripping with Spanish moss, a countless variety of wildlife, and the other-worldly hues and scents of a rustling Southern seashore.
As you read through these 101 articles (they are not ranked in any particular order), you will learn about all that there is to do both in and out of the water; about this area’s history and culture and how one man dramatically turned an isolated sea island into a world-famous destination resort.
By the Numbers
• There are about 40,000 of us who live on Hilton Head year-around. There are plenty of reasons for that, as we hope you will soon find out.
• The Island is 42 square miles – 12 miles long and five miles wide.
• We are located about 45 minutes north of Savannah, Georgia, about 50 minutes south of Beaufort, South Carolina, and about 2 hours south of Charleston, South Carolina.
• We are the second largest barrier island on the East Coast of the United States (Long Island, New York being the largest).
• The Island is comprised of about 28,000 acres of dry land and about 2,000 acres of wetlands.
• We have 13 miles of wide white sand public beaches, over 100 miles of bike and leisure trails, 23 golf courses on-island (another 22 near-by), and more than 300 tennis courts.
• We gratefully receive over 3 million visitors a year.
• We have well over hundreds of restaurants and stores, not to mention thousands of beds on which to lay your exhausted heads.
• We are consistently ranked at the top of numerous “Best Of” lists by the travel industry’s most reputable sources, including Fodor’s Travel, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure magazine, and TripAdvisor.
We hope this magazine will aid you in finding that special “thing to do” for your visit to the Lowcountry. So, sit back and read. Then get up and enjoy!