South Carolina

South Carolina’s Chauga River cuts its way through the Blue Wall, a term the Cherokee reportedly gave to the Southern Blue Ridge Escarpment’s imposing prominence above the Piedmont. Across a variety of roads and trails, the Chauga River Ramble traverses the landscape carved up by the Chauga and its tributaries, offering ridgetop views, abundant waterfalls, cool swimming holes, dense forests, and riverside campsites...

The bikepacking edition of the Palmetto Trail is a 330 mile traverse of South Carolina through long-leaf pine forests, sand hills, wetlands and wooly swamps. The route follows established passages from Spartanburg in the upstate all the way to the Intercoastal Waterway just north of Charleston, SC.