South Beach at Hunting Island will be closed Tuesday, August 11, through Thursday, August 13th so park staff can perform heavy tree work on the road shoulders inside the park and to the parking areas.
The parking area at south beach will be closed, as will the parking area at the lagoon. Only north beach will be open for vehicles during this time.
South beach will reopen, along with parking areas on Friday the 14th.
The announcement was made via Twitter:
Closure update for our South Beach:
South Beach will be closed Tuesday the 11th – Thursday the 13th. It will reopen Friday the 14th. We will be doing heavy tree work on the road shoulders and the parking areas. South Beach reopens this weekend beginning Friday the 14 #timber— Hunting Island State Park (@HuntingIslandSP) August 10, 2020
The trouble at Hunting Island came after intense rains on July 6th & 7th dumped a whopping 12 inches of rain on our sea islands in a 48 hour period, causing roads and lower-lying spots in the park to be flooded.
The park was closed for a few weeks in July while staff used two pumps and waited for the water to drain off of the roadways.
This certainly isn’t the first time that Hunting Island saw problems due to Mother nature.
The past few years haven’t been kind to everyone’s favorite local beach. Hurricane Matthew caused lots of destruction in 2016 and that was followed by Irma in 2017 and each time there are heavy rains, some of the roads in the park flood out, as does the campground.
Reports say that the roads in the park will be undergoing a major overhaul in the future and will be raised a few feet above their present height to help avoid flooding in the coming years.
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