Congaree Creek Heritage Preserve
To know me is to know that I love history and that I love the natural world. I am always through the moon when I am able to combine these two things with some good old-fashioned hiking. Recently, I was able to visit the 627-acre Congaree Creek Heritage Preserve and hike the 3-mile Guignard Brickworks Trail. The trail was well marked (I only lost it once), forested, narrow in some places, soggy in others, and ran through a wetland area and along the Congaree Creek. This area is prone to flooding, so I would advise avoiding the trail after a substantial rainfall (although there exists a short cut trail which was made to cut out some of the frequently flooded areas). It is home to the threatened Atlantic White Cedar, once one of the most valuable timber trees in the Southeast. Despite being a stone’s throw away from the capital city, I was surprised to find myself quite swept away from modern life and imagining all of the history that occurred on the ground beneath...
