Deep in the pitch-black woodlands of Congaree National Park lives a mysterious insect that draws thousands of onlookers each year. The forest is dead quiet at night, aside from the chirping of ...

While most travelers think about a romantic getaway for Valentine's Day, Julie and I decided to visit our 17th national park during a flood. Just like beauty, romance is in the eye of the beholder. We ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - As spring returns to the Midlands, the Congaree National Park is preparing for a beautiful natural phenomenon. Synchronous fireflies, which are fireflies that gather in a swarm ...

A display at Congaree National Park shows the history of how the preserve was saved. Sammy Fretwell/The State Fifty years after the federal government saved the Congaree swamp from industrial scale ...

Things were peaceful at Congaree National Park last week as people strolled the trails and boardwalks that extend from the preserve’s visitors center. But some of those drawn to the park for its tall ...

HOPKINS — Congaree National Park, which some negative reviewers are calling "the worst national park" in the country, is answering back at its critics in a social media post. The state’s only national ...

Nights at Congaree National Park are as inky black as any place in South Carolina. But for a few weeks each year, the darkness is pierced by the synchronized flashing of tiny lightning bugs. The ...

There’s not a day goes by that I don’t get some social media clickbait about National Parks. For better or worse — mostly worse — these algorithms know our interests. I’m such a National Parks ...

Fireflies at Congaree National Park flash in unision in this file photo from 2016. Only a few lucky winners get a chance to see the natural light show each year, which is currently protected by the ...