Hotels near Wateree Lake Campground, South Carolina:
* Distances listed are direct linear distances, actual travel distance may be different.
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Catawba River
 | ... 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 3,000 c.f.s., kind of on the low side. This has great potential as a commercial raft run & play kayaking run if adequate flows can be available (at least 8,000 c.f.s., preferably 10,000 c.f.s.). There are 2 separate runs, separated by Mountain Island--the 'L... |
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Other campgrounds near Wateree Lake Campground, South Carolina:
Chester State Park, Chester, 9 miles away 
Ridgeway Campgrounds, Ridgeway, 9 miles away 
Bethel Campground, Kershaw County, 18 miles away
Columbia/camden RV Park, Lugoff, 18 miles away
Landsford Canal State Park, Catawba, 18 miles away 
Goodale State Park, Camden, 19 miles away 
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Paddling Rivers Near Wateree Lake Campground, South Carolina:
Catawba River, Chester LancasterCounty, 8 miles away | | Class III - 2 miles long (Great Falls)
...,000 or 4,000 c.f.s. spilling into the dewatered stretch to be worth running. At...
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National Parks near Wateree Lake Campground, South Carolina:
Congaree Swamp National Monument, Hopkins - SC, 31 miles away
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Lakes Near Wateree Lake Campground, South Carolina:
Hilton House Pond, Kershaw CountyCounty, 3 miles away 
Rock and Cedar Creek Reservoir, Lancaster CountyCounty, 5 miles away
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