We stayed at Sesquicentennial State Park in Columbia, South Carolina. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A nice state park in the capital city of South Carolina.

Dates:

• Check in: 2024-04-28
• Check out: 2024-05-05
• 7 nights

Weather:

• Partly cloudy
• High temps 78-89°F, lows 56-67°F
• Negligible wind, gusts to 18 MPH

Noise:

• No road noise
• Distant train horn noise
• Some neighbor noise, especially around weekends

Site:

• #6, pull-through, gravel
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad, parked behind coach
• Mostly level; used hydraulic leveling
• Gravel driveway about 130 feet long
• No neighbor on passenger side; trees
• Road on driver side; about 15 feet wide
• Picnic table on gravel area
• Fire pit
• Mostly clean site

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• 70 PSI water, conveniently located
• Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 30-60 Mbps down, 2-5 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
• AT&T: 400-450 Mbps down, 6 Mbps up, 40-80 ms ping
• Verizon: 10 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up, 40 ms ping
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: none

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpster by entrance
• Dump station
• Walking paths
• Lake

Our review on Campground Reviews:

An oasis in the heart of Columbia

This park is smack dab in the middle of Columbia, but you’d never know that while you’re there since it’s so peaceful, with a nice lake and walking paths. A lot of the sites are unlevel without full hookups, but we had site 6 which was good in both regards. It was plenty long enough for our 40′ motorhome and tow vehicle, with a spacious living area next to the woods. The road leading into the campground has some large concrete bollards surrounding a narrow curving choke point, which made it a little interesting getting in and out. The roads are single-lane and one-way, with the dump station at that choke point, which meant a slight wait to get out when everyone else was also leaving and needed to dump their tanks. But that’s a minor thing to deal with when the rest of the stay was very pleasant. We camped at Sesquicentennial State Park in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Adding the South Carolina sticker:

We also added the Congaree National Park sticker, after visiting that:

Park entrance:

Campground entrance:

Campground sign:

Fire pit, little library, pay phone:

Campground host:

Truck towing a fiver towing a trailer with a golf cart:

Other sites:

Dump station:

Splash pad, popular with kids during the day:

Playground:

A nice lake:

Cascades:

Nice picnic shelter:

Ranger station and gift store:

Gift store:

Some park-branded jams; we got Two Notch Traffic Jam (the park is off the busy Two Notch Road) and Sunday Picnic Sweet Tea Jelly (Jenn’s been enjoying Southern sweet tea):

(Though I had to go back a different day, as we went there on a walk without our wallets, and they don’t take ApplePay.)

Eastern box turtle:

Stuffed birds: