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See a state champion tree, get up close to live bats, walk the ten foot dry boardwalk that is flooded annually as the turtles of Westin Lake welcome you to Congaree National Park. The extreme contrasts of Congaree flooded and Congaree dry are explored as Clint Pollock takes you through part II of Congaree National Park, boardwalk and Sim’s Trail area.

Learn some insider tips like the best months to visit the park, what to see and what to expect, the best way to rent a canoe.

Just short of donning scuba gear or putting on camo and sitting real still for hours, canoeing might just be one of the best ways to get really intimate with the great outdoors. In this short teaser, outdoors producer Clint Pollock and you canoe through the largest intact old growth flood plain forest; Congaree National Park’s Cedar Creek, just twenty minutes from Columbia, SC.

From a canoe, one gets face to face and within a hand’s reach of wildlife, cypress trees, primeval forests and the teeming waters of the protected old growth flood plain forest. Paddle alongside Clint as the sun dappled leaves flutter light through the tall canopy of the ancient giants.

Without getting wet, there is no better way to see Congaree.