If you like the outdoors and the shade of trees beside a river, then check out the Chattooga  River Gorge just off HWY 28 above Mt. Rest SC. It is breath taking and a great hike summer or fall. We have gone in from the bridge on 28 and back packed for two nights and walk out and we have gone in from Pig Pen Falls and gone up to the big gorge rock and camped, and the last time we went in at Cherry Hill camp ground and took the shortcut (if you want to call it that) and made it to river in just about an hour. That way is all down hill which means it is all up hill coming out.

If you like to hike and know a great place to go where water is plentiful, I would love to know about it.

I read about a place in Oregon, the Rouge River, and you can hike to lodges along the way and then white water rafting on the way back. What a dream.