Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Congaree National Park covers more than 26,000 acres in Richland County. It was initially preserved in 1976 as Congaree Swamp ...

In the middle of the old-growth forests of Congaree National Park in South Carolina, fireflies put on an otherworldly display ...

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 ...

Congaree National Park is located near Columbia central South Carolina. What makes Congaree special is that the park pro ...

HOPKINS — Richland County sheriff's deputies have called off a search for an individual in distress in Congaree after hours with police dogs and helicopters in the swamp-laden national park . The ...

Lexington, SC (WLTX) -- In April the National Park Service rescued a father and his two children who were missing in the Congaree National Park for over two days. Friday, Jared Gurtler the law ...

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 ...

A visitor who thought boa constrictors were native to South Carolina released one in a Midlands park, according to officials. Congaree National Park posted on its Facebook page that rangers received ...

In 2018, I began a Junior Ranger journey with Grandson Hunter. As my Navy Son-in-law has ventured from assignments including Bremerton, WA, to Charleston, SC and now Yorktown, VA, we’ve traveled from ...

A new National Park Service report shows that 120,123 visitors to Congaree National Park in 2014 spent $5,945,600 in communities near the park. That spending supported 84 jobs in the local area and ...