From exploitation to preservation, the complex history of one of the Southeast's most important natural areas and South Carolina's only national park Located at

Located in central South Carolina, only a few miles from the capital city of Columbia, Congaree National Park is the largest old-growth bottomland hardwood fore

"Funding provided by: Dorothy and Edward Kendall Foundation, Richland County Conservation Commission, Friends of Congaree Swamp."

On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left th