The Great American Road Trip Challenge~4.5 years · 48 states · one loop

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Day183

Day 183 — Plantations & the Angel Oak — Charleston

Full day4h 30m planned

146Skyline Drive 147Luray Caverns 148Down to Charlottesville 149Jefferson's Charlottesville 150East to Richmond 151The Capitol & the Revolution 152Civil War & art 153To the Historic Triangle 154Colonial Williamsburg 155Jamestown & Yorktown 156Virginia Beach 157South to the Outer Banks 158First Flight 159Lighthouses & the Seashore 160Free / Beach Day 161Inland to the Triangle 162The Capital & its museums 163Durham & the campuses 164West to Asheville 165Biltmore 166The Blue Ridge & Mount Mitchell 167Free Day 168Down to Charlotte 169Speedways & Uptown 170Southeast to the coast 171Riverfront & Battleship 172Into South Carolina 173Falls Park & Main Street 174East to Congaree 175The Old-Growth Swamp 176Into the capital 177The Capital & the Zoo 178East to the Grand Strand 179The Grand Strand 180Down to Charleston 181The Historic District 182Fort Sumter 183Plantations & the Angel Oak 184Free Day 185Into the Lowcountry 186Beaufort & the Gullah coast 187Down to Savannah 188The Squares 189Gothic Savannah 190Free Day 191Out to Tybee 192Beach & Lighthouse 193South to the Golden Isles 194Jekyll & St. Simons 195Inland to Athens 196Campus & the Clubs 197North to Helen 198Alpine Georgia 199Down to Atlanta 200Downtown icons 201Civil rights 202Art & the BeltLine 203Free Day 204South to Florida

The landscape's beauty and its brutal history.

9:30 AM – 1:00 PM· 3h 30m
Middleton Place & McLeod PlantationSomber & Civil-Rights SitesAnchor
America's oldest landscaped gardens — and, at McLeod, an unflinching telling of the enslaved people who built them.
Bring: walking shoes
4300 Ashley River Rd, Charleston, SC
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM· 1h
The Angel OakLandmarks & Monuments
A live oak estimated at 300–400 years old, its limbs sprawling across half an acre.
3688 Angel Oak Rd, Johns Island, SC