The capital of South Carolina sits on the inner edge of the Coastal Plain, or the fall line, in the middle of the state. When General Sherman came through the state in early 1865, his forces burnt much of what would have been of interest to Columbia's tourists. The State House is less than a hundred years old, and many visitors head to the University of Southern Carolina's Horseshoe to get a taste of history. The Columbia Museum of Art and Science, houses Italian Renaissance paintings from the Samuel H. Kress collection. The Grand Strand is 60 miles of beaches, villages and restaurants catering to tourists.
Golfers paradise in two words , although there are other ways to get close to nature.
The state stretches northwest from the Atlantic Ocean to the Appalachian Mountains. In colonial times the Coastal Plain was known as the low country. South Carolina is relatively humid, except in the higher regions of the Blue Ridge. The Savannah, South Carolina's third major river, forms most of the southern border with Georgia . Order tourist brochures and look at where you'd like to stay.