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Hilton Head Island - Bluffton Chamber of Commerce
With sunny days, peaceful beaches and mild temperatures, winter on Hilton Head Island is a beautiful time to rejuvenate your life.

Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head Island is the 2nd largest Barrier Island on the East Coast of the United States. It is approximately 12 miles long and 5 miles wide and is located in the Southeastern part (Beaufort County) of South Carolina.

Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina (SC) is located at the southernmost tip of the state directly along the Atlantic Ocean. The island offers a unique blend of recreational, environmental and....

Discover South Carolina
If you’re thinking that a South Carolina Vacation would do you a world of good, you’d be absolutely right.

Weather

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Hilton Head Weather & Hilton Head Maps
A balmy, subtropical climate is the best way to describe Hilton Head weather.

Hilton Head Transportation

Savannah / Hilton Head International Airport
Serving the Greater Savannah Region of the Colonial Coast of Georgia and the Low Country of South Carolina.

Hilton Head Island Airport
Enjoy all the luxuries of a "big city" airport without the hassles - no traffic jams when looking for a parking space, no mile-long hike from a parking garage to the terminal, and no long lines at the ticket counter.

Airport Shuttle and Transportation
Gray Line Low Country Adventures offers a scheduled shuttle service from the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport to the Savannah, GA historic district and the Sun City/Bluffton/Hilton Head Island area.

Getting to Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head Island is accessible by air, highway, train or boat.

Hilton Head Restaurants

Hilton Head Island and Bluffton
& Lowcountry Restaurants
Hilton Head Island Restaurants Magazine, published since 1986, is Hilton Head's most comprehensive source of reference concerning dining out.

Hilton Head Restaurants 10 Best
We've explored all the options, checked with critics, pounded the pavement and offer only the very best.

Hilton Head Island Restaurants

Hilton Head Sightseeing, Touring and Attractions

Harbour Town Lighthouse
The 90-foot, red-and-white striped tower of the Harbour Town Lighthouse on Hilton Head Island is the visual centerpiece of the popular Sea Pines, located in Hilton Head South Carolina

Hilton Head Beaches
Hilton Head offers about 14 miles of beach. Most of it is along the Atlantic Ocean coast, some is along the Calibogue Sound, some on the Port Royal Sound at Port Royal plantation and Hilton Head plantation has a small beach next to Dolphin Head, also on Port Royal sound. The newly opened Fish Haul Creek Park offers a little known beach access to a beach on the Port Royal Sound. The beach there is quite private (no, not that private) but with little wave action.

Hilton Head Island Beach Information
Hilton Head Island is the second largest barrier island on the east coast and is protected by an offshore sandbar. This protection makes for a small gently rolling surf. Additionally, there is a tidal difference of eight feet which at low tide gives the more than 12 miles of Hilton Head Island beach a width greater than 600 feet. With such a broad beach there is plenty of room for sunning, sculpturing, shelling, strolling, running, fishing, biking, and swimming.

Hunting Island State Park
Located on the 5,000-acre barrier Hunting Island off the Atlantic coast, the Park combines a natural setting with year-round recreational opportunities and numerous outdoor activities. Outdoor activities offered at Hunting Island State Park include swimming, boating, kayaking and fishing. A 1,120-foot fishing pier is located at the southern end of the island. Hunting Island State Park is also home to an eight-mile hiking and mountain biking trail as well as three nature trails, ranging from a third of a mile to one mile in length (one-way).

Coastal Discovery Museum
The Coastal Discovery Museum offers programs, activities, and exhibits year-round to make learning about Hilton Head and other sea islands an enjoyable experience for island visitors and residents alike. With indoor and outdoor exhibits, activity centers in the Sea Island Classroom, the History Time-line Exhibit, and Museum Store on-site, plus 11 different tours and cruises around the island, the Museum is a fantastic way to become familiar with the island's unique history and ecology.

Fort Walker
The remains of Fort Walker are a reminder of Hilton Head Island's role during the American Civil War. Built at the entrance to Port Royal Sound in 1861, Fort Walker was designed to protect the South Carolina coast in the event of a Union attack. On November 7, 1861, Fort Walker and another Confederate fortress, the nearby Fort Beauregard, fell into Union hands during the Battle of Port Royal. With 13,000 Union troops under the command of Gen. Thomas W. Sherman storming the area, the Battle of Port Royal proved to be America's largest amphibious assault until the D-Day landing on the beaches of Normandy more than 80 years later.

Island Winery
Dr. Georgene Mortimer is a professional winemaker and has been making award - winning wines for years.

Hilton Head Outdoor Activities

Golf and Tennis

Hilton Head National
The course is a Gary Player design and incorporates many of Gary's philosophies on golf course layout. Gary stresses that while golf courses should be challenging, they should not punish unduly. If golf's what brought you to the Lowcountry, you'd be remiss to miss Hilton Head National's commitment to golf, pure golf, that has made it one of the most enjoyable links experiences in this golf-crazy region.

Golden Bear Golf Club
This Nicklaus-designed golf course has quickly earned a name for itself as one of the top-rated layouts on an island of top-flight designs. Ever-present water and sand keep play interesting, but never penalizing...golfers will find the course puts a premium on strategy and finesse, rather than sheer power.

Palmetto Dunes Golf and Tennis
Enjoy the ultimate golf experience when you tee off at Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort. At this world-class resort, exceptional golf results from taking a beautiful natural setting on a coastal sea island, engaging three legendary golf architects to create challenging masterpieces, and infusing the entire golf program with a lasting commitment to quality and customer service. These elements have enabled Palmetto Dunes to rise above every other golf course destination in the Southeast and made it one of the premier golfing destinations on Hilton Head Island. Palmetto Dunes offers vacationers a choice of three superb golf courses, each one unparalleled in design, and yet distinctly different and challenging.

Crescent Pointe Golf and Tennis Club
The only public golf course in Hilton Head with Arnie's name on it. Hilton Head golf at its finest. This Arnold Palmer designed signature course will take your breath away! Spectacular marsh views. Magnificent, century-old oaks, pines and blossoming magnolias. Dramatic white-sand "beach bunkers" that cascade down the the water's edge. A unique feature of this world-class course is elevated greens and tees not usually found on the other Lowcountry courses. It's a shot maker's delight.

Daufuskie Island Resort & Breathe Spa
Sharpen your swing in a beautiful oceanfront setting, overlooking the blue waters of the Atlantic, at Daufuskie Island Resort & Breathe Spa. With your choice of two 18-hole championship courses - Bloody Point and Melrose - you'll enjoy an unforgettable Hilton Head South Carolina golf vacation.

Harbour Town Golf Links
Play in the footsteps of legends. Reserve a round on The Sea Pines Resort's world-famous Harbour Town Golf Links. Home to the Verizon Heritage Tournament since 1969, this distinguished PGA Tour golf course places a premium on finesse, imagination, and shot-making rather than strength.

Seapines Ocean Golf Course and Tennis
As the first course built on Hilton Head Island, the Ocean Course at The Sea Pines Resort embraces the true coastal golf experience. Exquisitely rebuilt in 1995 by Mark McCumber, this breathtaking South Carolina golf course poses delightful challenges to novices and veterans alike.

Ocean Creek Golf Club
Incorporating sweeping views of salt water marshes, fresh water lagoons, lush jungle vegetation and four distinctive rolling dune ridges, this beautiful course is 6,613 total yards and a par 71.

Eagle's Pointe Golf Club
Experience the beauty and challenge that 4-time Heritage Champion and 1997 PGA Champion Davis Love III brings to golf course design. A true and fair test of golf for players of all ability levels, Eagle's Pointe features wide, well-defined fairways, dramatic bunkering and magnificent undulating greens--all surrounded by the area's native grasses and towering pines.

Van Der Meer Tennis
No matter your level, our programs are designed to enhance your game. Van Der Meer Tennis is happy to offer a wide variety of 3-5 day adult tennis programs. Located at the picturesque Van Der Meer Shipyard Tennis Resort, our adult programs stretch each end of the tennis spectrum.

South Beach Racquet Club
The South Beach Racquet Club is a long-time favorite of island tennis players. Located next to the South Beach Marina in the Sea Pines Plantation on Hilton Head Island, the South Beach Racquet Club is renowned for its friendly staff and intimate low-country atmosphere.

Hilton Head Events

Verizon Heritage
The Verizon Heritage, South Carolina's only PGA TOUR event, is recognized as one of the premier golf tournaments in the country. Played at the famed Harbour Town Golf Links in The Sea Pines Resort since 1969, the event has rich history in the lowcountry that continues to flourish year after year.
Harbour Town Golf Links is recognized annually as one of America's top courses and is repeatedly selected by the PGA TOUR professionals as one of their favorites. Designed by Pete Dye in consultation with Jack Nicklaus in the fall of 1969, the course has always served as the host of the Verizon Heritage.

Native Islander Gullah Celebration
Huddy Everybody! Come jine we on we island home! Welcome to the Hilton Head Island Gullah Celebration! Today, the descendants of West Africans brought in bondage to the coastal islands of South Carolina and Georgia, are striving to preserve a way of life. Gullah is more than simply the language and name of a people. It encompasses the essence of struggle, spirituality, perseverance and tradition.

Yemassee Shrimp Festival
With the Yemassee community being a key figure in the evolution of shrimp baiting and its members refining it to become what it is today, it was only fitting that Yemassee have a shrimp festival. Yemassee's Shrimp Festival is evolving each year just as its shrimp baiting has. With both endeavors, Yemassee's community has found new ways of refining good ideas. If there is one thing that Yemassee know about, its shrimp.

Hilton Head Seafood Festival
In the 1980's, as part of Spring Fest, Seafood Fest was an eagerly anticipated event each year. The resurrection of this event promises to be even more successful, due to the increased number of quality dining establishments on the Island, and the increased awareness of seafood as an organic, healthy dietary option.

Hilton Head Island WineFest
Hilton Head Island's annual WineFest features the East Coast's largest outdoor public wine tasting and auction. With more than 1000 different wines, this popular yearly March event offers attendees, from serious wine connoisseurs to those with a casual interest, the chance to enjoy wine and to meet and mingle with some of the most knowledgeable wine experts in the world.

Hilton Head Area Hospitality Association Events
The Association is a non-profit organization that supports the local tourism industry by designing, developing and implementing programs, festivals and member networking opportunities explicitly intended to attract visitors to the Hilton Head area.

Hilton Head Island Events
Includes events in Hilton Head Island, Bluffton, and Yemassee.

Concours d'Elegance
The Concours was established in 2002 by a small group of volunteers, who shared an interest in cars & music. The goal of the original one-day event was to raise funds to support the many youth oriented programs of the Hilton Head Island Symphony Orchestra. Seven years later the Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance & Motoring Festival has exceeded everyone's expectations and developed into a multi day event that has earned international recognition.

The Arts in the Hilton Head Area

Performing Arts

Arts Center of Coastal Carolina
Located in the heart of Hilton Head Island, the award winning regional Arts Center of Coastal Carolina is a remarkable showcase for professional performing and visual arts, as well as cultural festivals and educational outreach.

South Carolina Repertory Company
Our mission was, and continues to be, to provide Hilton Head Island with quality theatre at a reasonable price in an intimate space.

Seahawk Stage Productions
Seahawk Stage Productions is the performance entity for the drama program at Hilton Head High School.

Music

Hilton Head Choral Society
The choirs of The Hilton Head Choral Society present a wide variety of choral music: Classical Masterworks, Pops Concerts and lighter fare, patriotic and Americana, gospel and musical theatre, along with an exciting Youth Choir repertoire.