South Carolina Attraction Transparency Index

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Only 12 of 95 South Carolina attractions and parks we checked (13%) publish all four basics a visitor needs: price, hours, parking and a dog policy. 95% publish hours and 91% a price, but just 26% say anything about parking.

Places checked95official sites
All four basics1213%
Publish parking26%the weakest basic
Publish a price91%dynamic pricing = no

What This Page Is For

Use it to: see how much South Carolina attractions and parks tell you before you leave home, which kinds of places are most forthcoming, and which publish everything.

Where the figures come from: 95 places named in our guides: 36 attractions, museums, gardens and trails, and 59 state parks and national park sites, each checked on its own official site (recorded in our attractions and places datasets, read on or before October 26, 2026). A basic counts only where the operator published it.

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Attractions vs Parks

Basic published	Attractions (36)	Parks (59)
Price	75%	100%
Hours	86%	100%
Parking	69%	0%
Dog policy	64%	97%

What Each Place Publishes

Search this table95 of 95

Place	Score	Price	Hours	Parking	Dogs
Boone Hall Plantation Mount Pleasant	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Brookgreen Gardens Murrells Inlet	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cypress Gardens Moncks Corner	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Drayton Hall Charleston	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Falls Park on the Reedy Greenville	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Greenville County Museum of Art Greenville	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Greenville Zoo Greenville	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Middleton Place Charleston	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden Columbia	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
South Carolina Botanical Garden Clemson	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Swan Lake Iris Gardens Sumter	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Upcountry History Museum Greenville	4/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Aiken State Park Windsor	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Andrew Jackson State Park Lancaster	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Angel Oak Tree (Angel Oak Park) Johns Island	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Baker Creek State Park McCormick	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Barnwell State Park Blackville	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Battle of Musgrove Mill State Historic Site Clinton	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Battle of Rivers Bridge State Historic Site Ehrhardt	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Black River State Park Salters	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Caesars Head State Park Cleveland	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Calhoun Falls State Park Calhoun Falls	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site Mount Pleasant	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site Charleston	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Cheraw State Park Cheraw	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Chester State Park Chester	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Colleton State Park Walterboro	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site Summerville	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Columbia Museum of Art Columbia	3/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Congaree National Park Hopkins	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Cowpens National Battlefield Gaffney	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Croft State Park Spartanburg	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Devils Fork State Park Salem	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Dreher Island State Park Prosperity	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Edisto Beach State Park Edisto Island	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Florence County Museum Florence	3/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Foothills Trail Pickens	3/4	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park Charleston	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Gibbes Museum of Art Charleston	3/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Givhans Ferry State Park Ridgeville	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Goodale State Park Camden	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
H. Cooper Black Jr. Memorial Field Trial and Recreation Area Cheraw	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Hamilton Branch State Park Plum Branch	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Hampton Plantation State Historic Site McClellanville	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Hickory Knob State Resort Park McCormick	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Hunting Island State Park Hunting Island	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Huntington Beach State Park Murrells Inlet	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
International African American Museum Charleston	3/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Jones Gap State Park Marietta	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Keowee-Toxaway State Park Sunset	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Kings Mountain National Military Park Blacksburg	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Kings Mountain State Park Blacksburg	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Lake Greenwood State Park Ninety Six	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Lake Hartwell State Park Fair Play	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Lake Warren State Park Hampton	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Lake Wateree State Park Winnsboro	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Landsford Canal State Park Catawba	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Lee State Park Bishopville	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Little Pee Dee State Park Dillon	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
May Forest State Park Charleston	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Myrtle Beach State Park Myrtle Beach	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Ninety Six National Historic Site Ninety Six	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Oconee State Park Mountain Rest	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Oconee Station State Historic Site Walhalla	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Palmetto Trail Awendaw	3/4	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Paris Mountain State Park Greenville	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum Mount Pleasant	3/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Pine Island State Park Columbia	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Poinsett State Park Wedgefield	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail Greenville	3/4	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ramsey Grove State Park Georgetown	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site Beech Island	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Ripley's Aquarium of Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach	3/4	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site Union	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Sadlers Creek State Park Anderson	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Santee State Park Santee	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Sesquicentennial State Park Columbia	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
South Carolina Aquarium Charleston	3/4	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Table Rock State Park Pickens	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
The Charleston Museum Charleston	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
The Children's Museum of the Upstate (Greenville) Greenville	3/4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Three Rivers Greenway Columbia	3/4	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Woods Bay State Park Olanta	3/4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum Aiken	2/4	Yes	Yes	No	No
EdVenture Children's Museum Columbia	2/4	Yes	Yes	No	No
Edisto Memorial Gardens Orangeburg	2/4	Yes	Yes	No	No
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens Charleston	2/4	No	Yes	No	Yes
Mary Black Foundation Rail Trail Spartanburg	2/4	No	No	Yes	Yes
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park Beaufort	2/4	Yes	Yes	No	No
South Carolina State Museum Columbia	2/4	Yes	Yes	No	No
St. Phillips Island State Park Hunting Island	2/4	Yes	Yes	No	No
The Rice Museum Georgetown	2/4	Yes	Yes	No	No
Hopelands Gardens Aiken	1/4	No	Yes	No	No
Myrtle Beach Boardwalk and Promenade Myrtle Beach	1/4	No	No	No	Yes
West Ashley Greenway Charleston	0/4	No	No	No	No

Method

Four basics: admission price, opening hours, parking (cost or arrangements) and a dog or pet policy. A stroller rule is not scored because none of the state park pages publish one (our state parks dataset records that), so this index is not directly comparable with our sister site’s five-basics index for Georgia.
Price: a page that only shows a dynamic, date-based ticket calendar counts as not published.
Parks and parking: state and national park pages publish per-person admission and no parking information, so parks score no on parking. That is the finding, not a gap in our reading.
Re-checked when the underlying datasets are refreshed; each row carries its date.

FAQ

What is the South Carolina Attraction Transparency Index?

A check of whether 95 attractions and parks publish four basics on their own sites: price, hours, parking and dog policy.

Which places publish everything?

Boone Hall Plantation, Brookgreen Gardens, Cypress Gardens, Drayton Hall, Falls Park on the Reedy, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville Zoo, Middleton Place, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, South Carolina Botanical Garden, Swan Lake Iris Gardens, Upcountry History Museum.

Why does parking score so low?

Only 26% say anything about parking; state and national park pages publish admission but no parking details.

Can I use this data?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0 with credit to It’s South Carolina and a link to this page.

Sources

Read on October 26, 2026. Every row links to the official site that was checked. How we check: editorial standards; spot a mistake? Tell us.

Cite this page: It's South Carolina, “South Carolina Attraction Transparency Index”, itssouthcarolina.com/data/sc-attraction-transparency-index/ (updated 2026-10-26). By the It's South Carolina editorial team. Free to quote with attribution and a link to this page; data and tables are licensed CC BY 4.0.