Little Pee Dee River: This blackwater river encompasses mature bottomland hardwood forest, longleaf pine sandhills, mature floodplain forest and oxbow lakes. The trail flows from the North Carolina border (Marlboro Co.) to join with the Great Pee Dee River in Marion County. The Lumber River merges into the Little Pee Dee near Mullins. The Little Pee Dee from the Lumber River to the Great Pee Dee River has been designated a South Carolina Scenic River by the S.C. Dept. of Natural Resources.

"Paddling South Carolina" by Gene Able and Jack Horan (pg. 43-47, 75)
"Favorite Canoe & Kayak Trails of South Carolina" by Palmetto Trails (pg. 2-3, now out of print)
"Upper Coastal Wildlife Management Area Map" by SC Dept. of Natural Resources

Length: Total 103.6 miles from Secondary Road 23 north of Dillon to the Great Pee Dee River
Flow Rate: 3148 cfs / 84. mm gph @ US Hwy. 501 (Gallivants Ferry)
Flood Stage: 9 ft @ US Hwy. 501 (Gallivants Ferry)
Minimum Level: runnable year round below US Hwy. 76 (Nichols)
Streamflow: US Geological Survey
Tidal: no
Gradient: 90 feet / 0.9 ft/mi

USGS Topo Maps 1:100,000 Florence, Kingstree, Georgetown
USGS Topo Maps 1:24,000 Dillon West, Dillon East, Fork, Lake View, Nichols, Gallivants Ferry, Centenary, Britton Neck, Show Island, Dongola, Yauhannah

Little Pee Dee River Heritage Preserve Primitive Camping 18 miles of riverfront from Lumber R. (south of Nichols) to Davis Landing (below Galivants Ferry) SC Dept. of Natural Resources Heritage Trust Preserve tel. (843) 546-3226
Little Pee Dee State Park Improved Camping riverfront between Dillon and Marion tel. (866) 345-7275 (central reservations).