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Congaree National Park Facilities
Open All Year 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. During daylight savings time (DST), the Harry Hampton Visitor Center will be open until 7:00 PM on Fridays and Saturdays.
Congaree is located 20 miles south south-east of the city of Columbia, South Carolina.
Christmas Day (December 25th)
Restrooms accessible by wheel chairs. Boardwalk loop, 2.3 miles, accessible by wheelchair. Over 20 miles of marked hiking trails 18 miles of marked canoe trail (primitive conditions with numerous tree falls across creek.) Picnic tables near Ranger Station..
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.