This is where you can find websites, helpful phone numbers, friends groups and cooperating associations, and, sometimes, books related to the park.

Congaree National Park: www.nps.gov/cong

Harry Hampton Visitor Center

Physical and Mailing Address

100 National Park Road
Hopkins, SC 29061

Visitor Information: 803-776-4396

For various maps of the park, area, and land and water trail maps, click here.

For information about bringing pets, click here.

Fees

Entrance into Congaree National Park is free. No entrance pass is required.

Friends Organizations and Cooperating Associations

Friends of Congaree Swamp is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to:

Increase recognition, public awareness, and appreciation of Congaree National Park as a resource of local, state, national, and international significance;

Protect and restore the ecological systems and natural beauty of the park, and seek to maintain compatible land uses outside the park;

Enhance educational, interpretive, and research opportunities relating to the natural heritage and historical heritage of the park and its environs;

Support the park through advocacy, volunteer service, and fundraising. 

Helpful Books

Guide to Congaree National Park: Map, Sites Along Hiking Trails,How To Prepare,Geology,History,Wildlife And Tips (National Parks,Monuments ,Parkways and State Parks Guide)
Immerse yourself in the heart of the ancient South Carolina wilderness with this comprehensive guide to Congaree National Park. Discover the secrets of this unique bottomland hardwood forest, home to towering trees and a diverse array of wildlife. Key features include overlay maps, descriptions of must-see sights a well as hidden gems, preparing for a trip to Congaree with tips on packing, permits, and weather conditions, geology, history, and wildlife.

Nature’s Return: An Environmental History Of Congaree National Park
Located at the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree Rivers in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park protects the nation's largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest. Modern visitors to the park enjoy a pristine landscape that seems ancient and untouched by human hands, but in truth its history is far different. In Nature's Return, Mark Kinzer examines the successive waves of inhabitants, visitors, and landowners of this region by synthesizing information from property and census records, studies of forest succession, tree-ring analyses, slave narratives, and historical news accounts.