Great Pee Dee River: This river begins as the Yadkin River in the western mountains of North Carolina where it is dammed repeatedly for hydroelectric production and as a drinking water reservoir. From about Wadesboro NC, the river flows unimpeded by dams, encompassing mature bottomland hardwood forest, longleaf pine sandhills, mature floodplain forest and oxbow lakes, and joins with the Little Pee Dee River in Marion County.
"Paddling South Carolina" by Gene Able and Jack Horan (pg. 122)
Length: Total 171 miles from NC state line to Winyah Bay, Georgetown.
USGS Topo Maps 1:100,000 Laurenburg, Florence, Kingstree, Georgetown
Great Pee Dee River Heritage Preserve Primitive Camping riverfront west of Darlington, SC DNR Heritage Trust Preserve
"A Pee Dee River Journal" by Joe Liles from Rockingham NC to Georgetown SC includes schematic map
"Upper Coastal Wildlife Management Area Map" by SC DNR
"Yadkin Passage" by Floyd Rogers, 1982
"A Voyage Down the Yadkin-Great Pee Dee River" by Douglas L. Rights, 1928
USGS Topo Maps 1:24,000 Morven East, Cheraw, Wallace, Society Hill, Mont Clare, Drake, Witherspoon Island, Oak Grove, Pee Dee, Pamplico North, Pamplico South, Gresham, Johnsonville, Snow Island, Outland, Yauhannah, Plantersville, Waverly Mills, Georgetown South
Pee Dee Station Site and Marsh Wildlife Management Areas Primitive Camping east of Pamplico, SC DNR
Yauhannah Primitive Camping below US Hwy. 701 across from Bull Island, Willie T. Lowrimore tel. (843) 527-2990
Sandy Island Primitive Camping south end on Thoroughfare Creek, Guendalose Pltn., J. Furman Long tel. (843) 546-8962
Dirleton Plantation Improved Camping in Plantersville, SC DNR Samworth Wildlife Mgmt. Area, tel. (843) 546-9489