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Palmetto Island County Park
Park
127 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, SC parks, trails & bike paths
About 8.5% of Mount Pleasant is conserved land, roughly 3,159 acres. There are about 36 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Palmetto Island County Park (1.5 mi), Fort Palmetto Park (1 mi), and Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (0.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Mount Pleasant, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Mount Pleasant outdoors
Conserved land
8.5%
3,159 of 37,274 acres
Trails
36 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 9 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
13
34 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
24.1 mi
5.4 mi lanes · 18.6 mi off-road paths
Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
2
Fort Palmetto Park
Managed by Town of Mount Pleasant
28 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
Managed by National Park Service
29 acres0.9 mi of trail
Nature Trail
Dogs usually limitedNational parks restrict dogs on most trails. Check posted rules
4
Laurel Hill County Park
Park
742 acres0.7 mi of trail
White
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Mount Pleasant Memorial Waterfront Park
Managed by Town of Mount Pleasant
15 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dogs allowedMapped in OpenStreetMap
6
Kearns Park
Park
6 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7
Eastlake Park
Park
13 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 13 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 13 parks & preserves
Palmetto Island County Park127 acres · 1.5 mi of trail
Fort Palmetto Park28 acres · 1 mi of trail · Town of Mount Pleasant
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site29 acres · 0.9 mi of trail · National Park Service
Laurel Hill County Park742 acres · 0.7 mi of trail
Mount Pleasant Memorial Waterfront Park15 acres · 0.7 mi of trail · Town of Mount Pleasant
Kearns Park6 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Eastlake Park13 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Creekside Park16 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Perseverance Square1 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Westlake Park7 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Who protects the land
3,159 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 822 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes5.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths18.6 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.1 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis155
- Soccer24
- Basketball19
- Baseball18
- Pickleball11
- Beach volleyball7
- Football3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Mount Pleasant and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | 8.5% | 35.7 mi | 13 |
| Charleston | 11.6% | 86.1 mi | 78 |
| Sullivan's Island | 8.6% | 3.6 mi | 5 |
| Awendaw | 14.3% | 9.6 mi | 1 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Mount Pleasant's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.
Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.
How we measure
"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 37.9-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.