The dawn of creation

This travel article from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism highlights the Congaree National Park. Nature set this green-variegated gem--the country’s 57th national park and South Carolina’s first--along the Congaree River’s north bank some 20 miles southeast of Columbia. There, the interplay of sunlight, minerals, and water sustains a 22,200-acre biome--the country’s largest contiguous tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest