Hotels near Capital City Campground, South Carolina:
* Distances listed are direct linear distances, actual travel distance may be different.
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Roof Pond
 | 12 miles away
What is a roof pond?... |
Catawba River
 | 28 miles away
...Reservoir, whose dam is just upstream of Lake Wateree. The average gradient is about 30 feet per mile, and the rapids fairly continuous when there's enough water. Unlike the nearby stretches of the Catawba, this stretch is choked with boulders & contains several islands & multiple channels. Scenery is spectacular, the river coursing through a mini-canyon with granite walls & no development visible from the water. Right now it can be run only when the Catawba is very high, after extended periods of heavy rain. A good indicator is the Catawba USGS gauge at Rock Hill (basically the discharge from Lake Wylie Dam). If it's running well over 10,000 c.f.s., there's probably some flow spilling into the Great Falls run. It needs about 3,000 or 4,000 c.f.s. spilling into the dewatered stretch to be worth running. At these levels it's low class 3. At 10,000 c.f.s. in G.F.(about 20,000 c.f.s. full flow) it's big water class 3-4 & alot of fun. Under the new Catawba/Wateree relicense agreement, there will be (I think) about 28 scheduled releases beginning next year. But it appears that the flows i... |
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Other campgrounds near Capital City Campground, South Carolina:
Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia, 6 miles away 
Barnyard RV Park, Lexington, 12 miles away 
Bethel Campground, Kershaw County, 15 miles away 
Wood Smoke Campground, Irmo, 16 miles away 
Lake Wateree State Recreation Area, Winnsboro, 16 miles away 
Edmund RV Park, Lexington, 19 miles away
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Paddling Rivers Near Capital City Campground, South Carolina:
Broad River, RichlandCounty, 5 miles away | | Class II-III - 4 miles long (I-20 to Congaree River)
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Saluda River, Lexington/ RichlandCounty, 8 miles away | | Class II-IV - 11 miles long (Lake Murray Dam to Broad/Congaree confluence)
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Catawba River, Chester LancasterCounty, 28 miles away | | Class III - 2 miles long (Great Falls)
...s that the flows into G.F. will be about 3,000 c.f.s., kind of on the low side. ...
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National Parks near Capital City Campground, South Carolina:
Congaree Swamp National Monument, Hopkins - SC, 16 miles away 
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Golf Courses Near Capital City Campground, South Carolina:
Northwoods Golf Club, Columbia, 4 miles away
Linrick Golf Course, Columbia, 5 miles away 
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Lakes Near Capital City Campground, South Carolina:
Lake Elizabeth, Richland CountyCounty, 3 miles away
Alcohol And Drug Abuse Lake, Richland CountyCounty, 3 miles away
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