Hotels near Chester State Park, South Carolina:
* Distances listed are direct linear distances, actual travel distance may be different.
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Catawba River
 | ...st 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 into G.F. will be about 3,0... |
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Other campgrounds near Chester State Park, South Carolina:
Wateree Lake Campground, Liberty Hill, 9 miles away 
Landsford Canal State Park, Catawba, 12 miles away 
Lake Wateree State Recreation Area, Winnsboro, 17 miles away 
Andrew Jackson State Park, Lancaster, 17 miles away
Ridgeway Campgrounds, Ridgeway, 17 miles away
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Paddling Rivers Near Chester State Park, South Carolina:
Catawba River, Chester LancasterCounty, 1 miles away  | | Class III - 2 miles long (Great Falls)
...icator is the Catawba USGS gauge at Rock Hill (basically the discharge from Lake...
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National Parks near Chester State Park, South Carolina:
Congaree Swamp National Monument, Hopkins - SC, 37 miles away 
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Lakes Near Chester State Park, South Carolina:
Great Falls Reservoir, Chester CountyCounty, 1 miles away
Great Falls-Dearborn Reservoir, Chester CountyCounty, 1 miles away
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