Originally posted on my Thrillhead Blog
Greenville
Greenville is a small city in South Carolina that has been wonderfully revitalized. Today, the city has been transformed to a “walking town”. Paths and gardens are everywhere, and if it weren’t for the dang summer heat, the walking here would be fantastic.
Mainstreet is full of shops and restaurants.
Read about the history of Greenville here:
http://www.greatergreenville.com/neighborhoods/historic_greenville.asp
Falls Park
The highlight of Greenville is Falls Park.
Falls Park is known for these falls which lie on the Reedy River. The Reedy is named as such because- well, it had a lot of reeds growning around it back in the day. Of course, these reeds have gone the way of the Cherokee that once inhabited the area- they are all gone!
The gardens at Falls park are spectacular. The land was purchased in 1967 for public use. However, the gardens didn’t start becoming realized until 1990.
Read more about Falls Park here:
http://www.fallspark.com/history.asp
Table Rock
Lots of interesting sights surround the Greenville area. One of them is the Table Rock State Park, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachians. We didn’t visit the park, but we passed by it. The rock that bears the parks name dominates the sky.
Read more:
http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/park-finder/state-park/350.aspx
Twin Falls
Twin Falls is also known as Reedy Cove Falls, Rock Falls, or Eastatoe Falls. There is about a 15 minute hike to get there through lush South Carolina forest.
Despite what it seems in the picture, the falls drop down over granite for more than 70 feet!
That concludes my South Carolina portion of my trip. Next, we headed up to North Carolina to visit the Cherokee Reservation, the Biltmore and Asheville.
More to come!
