Howdy from West Texas! Just returned from a quick trip to visit family in North Fla and coast of SC. Planned to stay in state parks the whole time so planned my trip during the week (avoiding weekends). Usually costs less than $20 at state parks although you may have to go off the interstate at times 20 miles or so. If you're worried about making good time, you may want to reconsider state parks but I'm retarded (retired) so time is irrelevant usually (life is good). BTW Lousiana honors the Golden Age Passport (Costs $10 at natl. parks for life) and only charges 1/2 price which costs me in La. $11 going and $12 coming back. Try to hit the state parks an hour or so before dark. Outside Hammond La. got to Tikfaw after dark and had to back into a camp site with no streed or yard lights, 50' ramp (note - install backup lights soon). Could have gotten a pull-through for another $1. It's also tough to find the camp sites in the dark. With better planning would have gotten there an hour earlier (before dark). You can find out where the state parks are, prices, specific locations, maps to them, hours (SP offices in La. closed at 9:00 PM and you can leave anytime before 1:00 PM. I like the La. SP web site better than any I've looked at. You can also make reservations at most state's websites but they usually charge a fee - some fee's are steep. Showers/rest rooms were very clean. At the SPs you're not near a MacDonalds or other fast food, so I usually bought a 12" sub for dinner, ate half for dinner, and the other half after I'm set up at the SP. Or fix your own. The S.C. SPs, if I remember correctly, were around $12 or so and they didn't honor the Golden Age passports but they were nice. Also, SC had some national park camp sites, primitive, with water only and a pit toilet, some ways off the interstate (Francis Marion) but check out Buck Hall Forest service park at Awendaw SC - all hookups but now requires reservations (eff 9-l). Costs was $10. On the intercostal waterway.
Lee
