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A slide presentation about Brookgreen Gardens is shown every day in the Education Center Auditorium. Walking tours of the sculpture gardens and wildlife park are conducted daily, year round. Natural history films are shown daily in the auditorium. Workshops, lectures; special tours and films are offered throughout the year. Contact the Education Center for details. Publications
Brookgreen Gardens was established on a tract of 9,127 acres stretching 3.1 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Waccamaw River in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The property has eight distinctive types of land: the beach and dunes, salt marshes, the maritime forest, loblolly pine swamps, long-leaf pine ridges, the river terrace, freshwater cypress-gum swamps, and abandoned rice fields along the river. The beach tract was leased free to the State of South Carolina and has been operated as Huntington Beach State Park since 1960. The entrance to Brookgreen Gadens is on US Highway 17 at the famous Fighting Stallions created by Anna Hyatt Huntington as a landmark for Brookgreen. It is midway between and 18 miles from Myrtle Beach to the north and Georgetown to the south. Visitors can travel to the area by car, with easy access to Interstate Highways 95 and 20; by commercial plane to the Myrtle Beach Civil Jetport; by private plane to airports at Georgetown, Conway and North Myrtle Beach; and by boat via the Intracoastal Waterway to full-service marinas in Georgetown, Bucksport and Myrtle Beach.
Brookgreen Gardens is open every day from 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. except Christmas Day; the grounds are cleared at 5:30 p.m. Admission is charged for adults and children ages 6-12; contact the business office for the current rates. Groups of 20 or more may make prior arrangements to be admitted at a discount rate. Membership Over 6,000 people are members of Brookgreen Gardens. For a yearly fee at the individual, family, contributing, sustaining or patron levels, members receive free admission so the gardens, guest passes, invitations to membership events, a biannual program calendar, quarterly newsletters and journals, and discounts on program fees and museum shop purchases. Information about personal and business memberships, memorials, special purpose donations and corporate matching gifts is available from the business office. Information For more information, write to: Brookgreen Gardens or call 800-849-1931 |
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