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The beauty of Oliver Pond is reason enough to stop by. Don't stop me now, cause I'm havin' a pleasant time here at Oliver Pond. There are other spots here than Oliver Pond, for example Parkers Pond, and there's some flowing water nearby, Bee Branch is a stream you can check out while you're here. There's so much to do here at Oliver Pond that you need to camp here for a while, Columbia/camden RV Park is a great site for that, and Green Hill Golf Club is a
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| | magnificent golf course nearby. During the summertime months, highs generally are in the 80's at Oliver Pond. For the period of the moonlight hours it's typically in the 60's. Through the wintertime this place gets highs in the 50's, and night lows in the 30's for Oliver Pond.
After a long day outdoors Econo Lodge Inn & Suites is a good place to spend a night or two; in the event that you don’t have a problem getting wet, you can always go whitewater paddling | |
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on Catawba River. Lakes are such calm sites, why not explore Susies Pond right next door to Oliver Pond; during your visit here you'll meet some folks from Lancaster for sure. This lake is so wonderful. You'll need more than a day
to explore everything Oliver Pond has to offer, you can camp at Ridgeway Campgrounds; Quality Inn & Suites is a good place to get some rest.
All the water falling down from the sky makes Oliver Pond a wet location; July is when you get the most rain here; April meanwhile is the driest month.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 34.31333
Longitude: -80.73333
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Catawba River, Chester Lancaster CountyCounty, 18 miles away
Class III - 2 miles long (Great Falls) |
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Catawba River
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...of Lake Wateree. The average gradient is about 30 feet per mile, and the rapids fairly continuous when there's enough water. Unlike the nearby stretches of the Catawba, this stretch is choked with boulders & contains several islands & multiple channels. Scenery is spectacular, the river coursing through a mini-canyon with granite walls & no development visible from the water. Right now it can be run only when the Catawba is very high, after extended periods of heavy rain. A good indicator is the Catawba USGS gauge at Rock Hill (basically the discharge from Lake Wylie Dam). If it's running well over 10,000 c.f.s., there's probably some flow spilling into the Great Falls run. It needs about 3,000 or 4,000 c.f.s. spilling into the dewatered stretch to be worth running. At these levels it's low class 3. At 10,000 c.f.s. in G.F.(about 20,000 c.f.s. full flow) it's big water class 3-4 & alot of fun. Under the new Catawba/Wateree relicense agreement, there will be (I think) about 28 scheduled releases beginning next year. But it appears that the flows into G.F. will be about 3,000 c.f.s., k... |
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