Croft State Park

Croft State Park near Spartanburg occupies part of the former Camp Croft military reservation, where South Carolina’s rural, wartime, and recreational history meet. The land began as late-18th-century farm country, and old farmsteads, family cemeteries, and church cemeteries still remain. It also includes a Revolutionary War skirmish site and traces of Whitestone Springs, a late-19th-century resort whose hotel burned in 1930. The area changed most dramatically during World War II, when Camp Croft trained about a quarter of a million troops and later held nearly a thousand German prisoners of war. After the base closed in 1945, part of the land became a state park, which opened in 1949.

South Carolina · United States