Devils Fork State Park
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| Devils Fork State Park | |
 Lake Jocassee in Devil's Fork State Park |
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| Built | 1990 |
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| Area | 622 acres (2.5 km²) |
| Closest town | Salem, South Carolina |
| Camping sites | Regular campgrounds, primitive boat-in, and RV sites are available |
| Hiking Trails | 2 |
| Other Information | Boating, fishing, many species of fish, including rainbow trout.[1] |
Devils Fork State Park is in northwestern South Carolina on the eastern edge of the Sumter National Forest at the edge of 7,500-acre (30 km²) Lake Jocassee. It is located three miles (5 km) off of SC 11, the Cherokee Scenic Highway, near tiny Salem, South Carolina.
The park offers hiking, camping (including several paddle-in primitive sites), canoeing and kayaking. The park is well-known for rainbow and brown trout, as well as largemouth, smallmouth, and white bass, crappie, bream and catfish. The park has accommodations for scuba divers, including a walk-in ramp; thirty foot visibility is common, and due to the lake's recent creation, roads, houses, signs and other marks of human habitation can be seen on the lake bottom.
The 622-acre (2.5 km²) park was created in 1990. The park has many small waterfalls that feed lake Jocassee, and is home to the Oconee Bell, a wildflower indigenous to North and South Carolina that grows throughout the park; more than 90 percent of the world population of these delicate white and pink flowers are found in the park.
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