Edisto Beach, SC: The Complete Visitor’s Guide
Visiting the Edisto Island Museum: Hours, Admission & What to Expect
Spending Thanksgiving on Edisto Beach
The Most Significant Hurricanes to Impact Edisto Beach
Edisto Beach Rules & Regulations
Where to Stay
There are no hotels on Edisto, so most visitors stay in a beach house, cottage or villa. Start with the kind of place you want, then check dates and prices on each page.
Plan your days
Things to Do on Edisto Beach
Edisto is an outdoor island: long beach walks, shark teeth at low tide, quiet creeks to paddle and some of the wildest coastline in South Carolina.
Edisto Beach State Park
Oceanfront camping, cabins and trails through maritime forest at the north end of the beach.
Park guide
Botany Bay
A wild beach of bleached, fallen trees, best at sunrise. Everything on the beach stays there.
Visiting Botany Bay
Shark teeth & shells
Look for small black fossil teeth in the shell line at low tide, one of Edisto’s favorite pastimes.
How to find them
On the water
Kayak the tidal creeks, fish the surf, go crabbing or take a sunset boat ride into the ACE Basin.
Boating, fishing & crabbing
Sea turtles & dolphins
Loggerheads nest here May through October, and Edisto’s dolphins strand feed on the creek banks.
Wildlife guide
History & culture
Old churches, plantations and Gullah heritage, starting at the Edisto Island Museum.
Island history
Coming Up on Edisto
Edisto Eateries
The Old Post Office Restaurant
