MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Myrtle Beach State Park is leaning on its New Deal roots for the nation’s 250th birthday, even as visitors face a winter without its trails.
No state park in South Carolina opened earlier, and crews from the Civilian Conservation Corps did the building. About 90 years ago more than 200 CCC workers arrived and put up structures that are still in use, including the cabins where guests sleep and the shelters where groups gather.
Six of those rental cabins date to the 1930s and sit in the oceanfront maritime forest that makes the park one of the last green stretches on the Grand Strand.
Anyone planning a fall walk should move fast. All park trails will close from November through January for maintenance and construction, according to the park.
Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for South Carolina seniors 65 and older and $4 for children 6 to 15, with children 5 and under free. The park is open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. through November, then 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. from December through February.
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