Leave it to us to select one of the coldest days in South Carolina's Fall season to visit this splendid national park! Congaree National Park is located in South Carolina, about 18 miles south of Columbia. Coming from Sumter, it was about a one-hour drive. It is home to the Congaree River and old-growth bottomland hardwood trees. This means, swampy and river adventures! Since we were visiting our son for Thanksgiving, we figured we would drag him along with us on our National