“101 Things to Do” is a free visitor magazine printed and published online twice a year.

    Explore our 101 articles to get an insider’s look at things to do and places to go on Hilton Head Island, SC, as well as the mysterious Daufuskie Island, and three of the country’s favorite historic cities: Beaufort, SC, Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA.

    This magazine is designed to not only give you ideas of how to spend your time, but to give you an appreciation for our land and our people.  Our neck of the woods is commonly called “the Lowcountry”, a geographic area that stretches along coastal South Carolina and Georgia.  It calls to mind our miles of beaches, endless salt marshes, cotton and rice plantations canopied by old towering oak trees dripping with Spanish moss, a countless variety of wildlife, and the otherworldly hues and scents of a rustling Southern seashore.

By the Numbers
    There are over 38,000 of us who live on Hilton Head year-around and there are plenty of reasons for that, as we hope you will soon find out. Here are some more numbers for you:

• The Island is 42 square miles -12 miles long and five miles wide.
• We are the second largest barrier island on the East Coast of the United States (Long Island, New York being the largest).
• The Island is comprised of about 28,000 acres of dry land and about 2,000 acres of wetlands.
• We have 12 miles of wide white sand beaches, 50 miles of bike and leisure trails, 23 golf courses on-island (another 22 near-by), and more than 300 tennis courts.
• We gratefully receive around 2.5 million visitors a year.
• We have well over 200 restaurants and hundreds of stores, not to mention thousands of beds on which to lay your exhausted heads!
• We are about 45 minutes north of Savannah, Georgia; about 50 minutes south of Beaufort, South Carolina; and about 2 hours south of Charleston, South Carolina.

    These numbers, however, don’t even begin to give you a flavor for our real home.  To understand Hilton Head Island and the Lowcountry, you need to understand our history, the migration and character of our people, our bountiful wildlife, and the economic forces that drive our development.  As you read through our 101 articles, you will learn the origin of our name; about how the Revolutionary and Civil Wars affected this island; about the influence of the Gullah culture; and how a bridge and one man dramatically turned an isolated sea island into a world-famous destination resort.

For Your Information
    First of all, the numeric order of our “101 Things To Do” is not a ranking. We have organized our articles in sections to help you locate activities of interest to you.  We do not endorse one activity over another.  We like them all and hope you will too!

    Additionally, you will find that specific activities or points of interest are mentioned in more than one article, as indicated by our listing of related editorial numbers at the end of many articles.  We can show you how your passion for jet skiing, for example, can lead to a new appreciation of our marine ecosystems.  How your curiosity about Daufuskie Island will lead you to learning about the Gullah culture.  How your passion for shopping leads you to a passion for the history of the South.

    And our maps, - lots of detailed maps!  Hilton Head, Bluffton, Beaufort, Savannah.  We have them all.

    One last thing:  If you find any inaccuracies or have any suggestions, please feel free to contact our Editor (843-682-3205) so we can make corrections in our next edition.  This magazine is a work in progress.

    So, sit back, relax, and read.  Then get up and enjoy! There are 101 Things to Do on Hilton Head Island and in the Lowcountry.