Camp Croft was an Army Training Facility until 1950 when it was sold in parcels to the state or to businesses. It is a beautiful wooded area with two lakes and the possibility of "unexploded and dangerous bombs, shells, rockets, mines and charges above or below ground" so that you are advised to stay on the trails. Since 1950, no one has been blown apart there that I have heard of. I took Boofa on the trail that goes off to the right from the boat ramps at Lake Craig. Croft is visited by fishermen, campers and especially horse back riders. There are mostly john boats on the lake quietly drifting while people fish. Some trails are for horses and after rain become mud holes by the trampling of horses' hooves. The picnic shelters have electric outlets where you can plug in your deep fryer to cook up your fish.
Leaving the park we met two men in straw hats riding expertly on beautiful horses and speaking Spanish, they waived and turned their eager mounts in circles as we passed.
This part of the park is reached from highway 56 which stretches from Spartanburg to Clinton.
The park is perhaps 5 miles outside of town after the SC School for the Deaf and Blind.
How interesting is that tidbit about the unexploded bombs? We are headed there this Friday and then Paris Mountain on Saturday so I am checking out your posts! Thanks for writing all of this!
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