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Coligny Beach Park

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Free things to do in Hilton Head Island

Coligny Beach Park

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Things to do
  1. Coligny Beach Park

    Hilton Head Island

    Hilton Head's most popular public beach, with swinging benches, a fountain, and easy boardwalk access.

    Free4.7 rating, 11,535 reviews
  2. Coastal Discovery Museum

    Hilton Head Island

    A 68-acre Lowcountry campus at Honey Horn - Gullah history, butterfly enclosure, marsh boardwalks and a 400-year-old live oak.

    Free4.7 rating, 2,008 reviews
  3. Folly Field Beach Park

    Hilton Head Island

    The locals' mid-island beach - boardwalk over the dunes, seasonal lifeguards, and some of the island's best bodysurfing swell.

    Free4.7 rating, 2,005 reviews
  4. Shelter Cove Harbour & Marina

    Hilton Head Island

    Mediterranean-style harbourside village on Broad Creek - dolphin cruises, summer fireworks every Tuesday, and King Neptune's sundial.

    Free4.7 rating, 1,487 reviews
  5. Mitchelville Freedom Park

    Hilton Head Island

    Site of the first self-governed town of formerly enslaved people in America, founded 1862 - the start of freedom before Emancipation.

    Free4.7 rating, 743 reviews
  6. Islanders Beach Park

    Hilton Head Island

    Quiet neighborhood-feel sand near Port Royal Sound with picnic shelters and a playground - the anti-Coligny.

    Free4.7 rating, 657 reviews
  7. Jarvis Creek Park

    Hilton Head Island

    A 53-acre park around an 11-acre fishing lake - mile-long loop, herons at dawn, and the island's best free family picnic ground.

    Free4.7 rating, 494 reviews
  8. South Beach Marina Village

    Hilton Head Island

    New England-style wharf at Sea Pines' southern tip - the Salty Dog Cafe, kayak and dolphin tours off Braddock Cove.

    Free4.7 rating, 446 reviews
  9. Fish Haul Creek Park

    Hilton Head Island

    Boardwalk to a wide, wild Port Royal Sound beach beside historic Mitchelville - horseshoe crabs, shorebirds, almost no crowds.

    Free4.6 rating, 2,210 reviews
  10. Burkes Beach

    Hilton Head Island

    Mid-island access flanked by the Chaplin Linear Park wetlands - sunrise photographers' pick, with egrets in the tidal lagoons.

    Free4.6 rating, 1,238 reviews
  11. Audubon Newhall Preserve

    Hilton Head Island

    50 acres of pocosin bog, pines and seasonal wildflowers - the island's quietest walk, kept by the Hilton Head Audubon Society.

    Free4.6 rating, 400 reviews
  12. Green's Shell Enclosure Heritage Preserve

    Hilton Head Island

    A 1,400-year-old Native American shell ring hidden in maritime forest off Squire Pope Road - older than the island's plantations by a millennium.

    Free4.4 rating, 57 reviews
  13. Fort Mitchel

    Hilton Head Island

    Earthwork remains of an 1862 Union battery overlooking Skull Creek, with cannons and an interpretive walk inside Hilton Head Plantation.

    Free4.0 rating, 117 reviews