Col Durnford  | 12 Aug 2025 12:50 p.m. PST |
Any suggestions for what to do or not do there, other than not firing on fort Sumter? |
| epturner | 12 Aug 2025 2:39 p.m. PST |
The Hunley museum, which is only open on the weekend, was good for killing a couple of hours. I was there about a month ago. Eric |
| T Corret | 12 Aug 2025 3:26 p.m. PST |
Fort Moultrie and high end homes built into bunkers from WWI and later. |
| Prince Alberts Revenge | 12 Aug 2025 6:07 p.m. PST |
Hunley Museum, Fort Sumter boat ride, Fort Moultrie, French quarter area is nice and has a lot of historical stuff to include Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon. Avoid some of the sketchier neighborhoods in North Charleston. Lots of great restaurants and breweries downtown. |
| Mirosav | 12 Aug 2025 6:26 p.m. PST |
You can visit the USS Yorktown. They offer ghost tours at night, which have the advantage of taking place when it is mostly empty. The Seminole leader Osceola is buried at Fort Moultrie. Charlestowne Landing is the location of the first English settlement and now a state park. There are a lot of historic houses in the area open to visitors if that is of interest. |
 KimRYoung | 13 Aug 2025 6:29 a.m. PST |
The Yorktown is located at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum right across the bridge where you take the ferry to Ft Sumter. The USS Laffey is there as well as a Vietnam exhibit. We did the ferry ride to the Fort in the morning and then went across the bridge to Patriots Point and that pretty much took the majority of the day. Kim |
| Mirosav | 13 Aug 2025 7:50 a.m. PST |
FYI, there are 2 places you can take the ferry to Fort Sumter. As KimRYoung wrote, you can leave from Patriots Point where the Yorktown is located in Mount Pleasant, across the Cooper River Bridge from downtown Charleston. You can alo leave from the downtown Charleston side at the Fort. Sumter Visitor Center |
| Red Jacket | 13 Aug 2025 9:55 a.m. PST |
I always like to walk along the Battery. Very nice views of the harbor, historic houses and Civil War artillery. I think that is the first place I ever saw a 13-inch mortar. |
| Maggot | 13 Aug 2025 10:14 a.m. PST |
Having just visited Charleston for the first time myself earlier this spring, let me offer a few words of caution:
1. Charleston is one of the more expensive cities to visit in the south, particularly if you are staying downtown.
2. Speaking of downtown: do not stay down there unless you have a high end hotel. The noise of construction (of which there is a lot) kept me up for almost the entirety of my trip there (I stayed in an Air BB). They were starting as early as 0400 and working well past midnight when I was there. I strongly suggest staying at one of the plantation hotels right outside of town. There is more downtown parking than you'd think, its just….expensive.
3. Charleston is a bit of a college town, with drunk college students and the attendent nightly police calls that this entails. Downtown is geared to the "over 21" crowd, so if that impacts you, keep this in mind with many of the restaurants and bars. Strongly recommend the plantation tours, some really nice places right outside of town. |
 20thmaine | 14 Aug 2025 4:41 a.m. PST |
Will they be getting the army on the streets? Should quieten it down a bit…. |
