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Hunting Island State Park

Visit the dog-friendly Hunting Island State Park located in Saint Helena Island, SC. This recreation area is South Carolina’s single most popular state park, attracting more than a million visitors a year, as well as a vast array of land and marine wildlife. It offers five miles of pet-friendly beaches, thousands of acres of marsh and maritime forest, a saltwater lagoon and an ocean inlet. Please keep your well-behaved pup on a leash no longer than six feet and clean up after him. Visit Website

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Hunting Island State Park has received a rating of 4.8 out of 5 bones by 6 canine critics on BringFido and 3.5 out of 5 by 827 guests on TripAdvisor.


Visitors find Hunting Island State Park an amazing beach destination, with dog-friendly amenities and beautiful natural scenery. They note that while some trails have ticks, the overall experience is highly enjoyable, with ample space to explore and play along the beach.

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  • Brooke
    Jun 27, 2021
    Amazing!

    Best beach ever! The dogs loved it!

  • Brandon
    May 25, 2021
    We had a blast!

    We had a great time bringing Sunny to this State Park. The beach is dog-friendly, so we were able to let her play in the sand and waves. Sunny enjoyed digging a huge hole on the beach and also enjoyed the seagulls. The path we were planning on hiking had been destroyed by a recent storm, so we did not explore any of the paths. We had a blast during our time there though.

  • Nicholas
    Nov 26, 2020
    Fun park but ticks on trails

    Outside the ticks we got walking a short trail from campgrounds to visitor center and marsh boardwalk(8 total), its a great park. Dogs can't go in the fenced in area around the lighthouse and other buildings but welcome most everywhere outside and on the beach as long as they are leashed (which almost all we met were). Beach still has the trees south of south beach but you'll want to go at low tide unless you like a challenge. Our dog loved all the people and dogs around.

  • Julieann
    Oct 28, 2019
    Fun On A Perfect Day

    My girl Pippa

  • Kelly
    Feb 24, 2019
    Perfect!

    Wonderful, lush wooded trails and a beautiful beach.

  • Ryker
    More than a year ago
    Amazing trip

    We went on the Sunday afternoon of Labor Day weekend, 2012, and it wasn't crowded at all. There were quite a few people at the campground, but if you drive further down to the park office you can park and find the trailheads from there. We took the rattlesnake trail down to the southern end of the park and didn't see one person along the trail. As we got to the nature center, there were a number of people out fishing on the pier, but you can catch another short trail out to the beach and we had over a mile of sandy beach to ourselves. There are large pieces of driftwood (whole trees) scattered along the beach which gives it a unique feel. We walked down the beach, taking stops along the way to go play in the waves, all the way back to the park office where we parked. There are quite a few mosquitoes and ticks in the forest, but that is to be expected.

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