Outside Activities at Myrtle Beach

Myrtle Beach has an extensive range of parks for all types of ladies and gentlemen who visit the oceanside city in South Carolina. The city of Myrtle Beach has a million and one activities for your family and friends to choose from. There are all kinds of ways to get out of the house and on your feet. Whether you enjoy golf or other types of sports, Myrtle Beach offers all kinds of activities. The wide varieties of terrain combine with the comfortable weather conditions to create a pleasant vacation for your family and friends. What could possibly be better than sun in your face and the ocean in your view as you swing your golf club, go on rides or smell the sweet intoxication of daisies in the wind? Nothing could be better!

One park that is part of the Huntington Estate is known as Brookgreen Gardens. This garden has America's first public sculpture garden and the Low Country History & Wildlife Preserve. This lovely garden atmosphere is a joyous way to spend your trip in South Carolina. You can also see both of these sites by taking a Low Country Tour, or a five-hour motorcoach ride. You will be sure to see nine hundred works of American sculpture nestled among the fifty acres of landscaping. In the Low Country Preserve, you will also see native plants and animal habitats, including aviaries, an otter pond, an alligator swamp and a fox glade. Preserve visitors have three options for seeing the natural habitat: by foot on the Low Country Trail, by boat, or on an overland vehicle tour.

Myrtle Beach knows how to have a glorious time, which is evident in the number of sports parks in "Sportstown USA." With over one hundred regulation golf courses and nearly fifty miniature golf courses, Myrtle Beach is also called the "golf capital of the world." If you are up for death-defying speed demons and burning rubber, visit the NASCAR SpeedPark, on the Highway 17 Bypass, for stock car racing, racing games and racing simulators. Myrtle Waves Water Park is another place for thrills and spills, with over 30 water rides. Pavilion Amusement Park also offers forty rides in addition to a haunted house, games and shops!

For adventures of another kind, you can also spend a day or two in one of Myrtle Beach's nearby state parks. Activities here include camping, renting a cabin, picnicking, fishing and visiting the nature center, not to mention all the swimming, beachcombing and other water activities you can enjoy on the one-mile stretch of beach.

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