Whitewater Rafting
Tours in South Carolina.

Beaufort Kayak Tours guides sea kayak trips through the saltmarsh creeks and barrier island waterways of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Routes paddle the ACE Basin — the confluence of the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto Rivers — which together form one of the largest undeveloped estuarine systems on the East Coast and a National Estuarine Research Reserve. Tours also explore the Hunting Island estuary, the saltmarsh behind Hilton Head, and the spartina creeks around Port Royal Sound, with regular sightings of bottlenose dolphins, manatees in summer, painted buntings in the maritime forest, and rookeries of wood storks and roseate spoonbills on the rookery hammocks. Half-day, full-day, and sunrise tours operate from public landings around historic downtown Beaufort and Lady's Island.

Wildwater Rafting Chattooga has run guided whitewater trips on the Chattooga River since the 1970s, operating on the wild and scenic river that forms the South Carolina-Georgia border through the Sumter and Chattahoochee National Forests. Section III offers a half-day of class II-IV rapids ideal for first-time rafters, while the legendary Section IV drops through the Five Falls — Entrance, Corkscrew, Crack-in-the-Rock, Jawbone, and Sock-em-Dog — a continuous class IV-V mile that is among the most demanding commercially run whitewater in the Eastern United States. Bull Sluice, the iconic class IV drop just above the Section IV put-in, is a centerpiece of the river. The Chattooga was the first river east of the Mississippi designated under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and was the filming location for the 1972 movie Deliverance.