Clarendon County High Point Trip Report
Date: December 13, 1999
Author: Fred Lobdell
From exit 108 on I-95, go into Summerton and pick up US 15/301.
Take US 15 north out of Summerton for about 9 miles to the blinking light at the
intersection with SC261 in the hamlet of Paxville. (This intersection may also be
reached by taking exit 119 off I-95 and taking 261 7 miles west to Paxville.)
Turn left (west) on 261 (the signs will say 261 north) and go 1.3 miles to the
first left after passing under some power lines. Turn left (southeast) on this
dirt road and go 0.5 miles, passing under the power lines again. Turn right
(southwest) and go 0.6 miles, passing under the power lines for a third time.
At 0.6 miles, shortly before the road reaches a height of land, there will be a
dirt track going off to the left (southeast). This track is passable by an ordinary
passenger car but is only as wide as a car. The topo shows it as continuing over a
height of land and going to a house, then turning left, but this was not evident on
the ground. Also, the house is no longer there. Take the track over the height of
land to a small turn-around where it appears to end. I turned here and parked at
the height of land; the track doesn't appear to get a lot of traffic.
The area was apparently logged fairly recently and is now a brushy field with some
5-foot tall pine trees. Bushwhack to the northeast for a couple of hundred feet to
the obvious ridge, then turn left and bushwhack another few hundred feet to the summit
of the small hill marked on the map by a 200-foot contour line. This hill is as
well-defined a HP as one could wish for in the coastal plain of South Carolina.
I don't know who owns the land, but it was not posted.