Raw States
Synchronous fireflies at Congaree
Hopkins, SC · Nature
- When
- May 14 – June 6, 2027
- Where
- Harry Hampton Visitor Center · Hopkins · SC
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
For two weeks each spring the males of Photuris frontalis flash in unison across the floodplain forest, one of only a few places on earth where fireflies do this. The park closes the road at dusk and admits cars by lottery. Exact dates are set each spring and shift with the weather, so check the park before travelling.
The history within reach
- Congaree's old-growth bottomlandsame spot
The largest tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood left in the country, saved by a campaign begun when logging resumed in 1969.
- Synchronous fireflies at Congareesame spot
For two weeks each spring the males of Photuris frontalis flash in unison across the floodplain forest, one of only a few places on earth where fireflies do this.
Built in three months in 1917 and now the largest basic training installation in the army, putting roughly half of all new soldiers through.
Eighty thousand people and the loudest pregame entrance in college football: the Gamecocks walk out to the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, a tradition started by an athletic director in 1983 that turns a horn fanfare into something closer to weather.
Four huge cotton mills went up along the river, and the company built whole villages of identical houses around them.