Mountain Rest South Carolina

Mountain Rest is an unincorporated community near the Chatooga River in northwestern Oconee County in Upstate South Carolina. The population was reported in 2007 as 1,992. Mountain Rest is about 9 miles from Walhalla, 10 miles from Salem and West Union, 11 miles from Long Creek. It is 50 miles from Greenville and 117 miles from Atlanta.

Mountain Rest is the location of Oconee State Park. The historic park rests deep in the Blue Ridge foothills, with several picturesque but non-demanding hiking trails and well-kept cabins and campgrounds that have welcomed families for annual trips since the days the park was first built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

The park’s fishing lakes offer bass and bream and the woods are full of wildlife, fur and feather alike. Oconee State Park also serves as the southern trailhead for the Foothills Trail, an 80-mile wilderness hike on the dramatic Blue Ridge Escarpment on up to Table Rock. Adjacent to Sumter National Forest, the park also serves as a jumping off point to the nearby Chattooga and Chauga rivers, hotspots for whitewater rafting and trout fishing.

For those wanting to live in privacy and seclusion, Mountain Rest is the perfect place to call home since it is located in Sumter National Forest. If Mountain Rest sounds like a place you might like to call home, then don't forget you can use the Mountain Rest South Carolina Free MLS Real Estate Search to see all the homes for sale in Mountain Rest South Carolina!