Edisto Beach #10 in Best South Carolina Beaches Edisto Beach bills itself as one of the last family-friendly South Carolina beaches thanks to minimal development. With only about 1,000 year-round residents, Edisto Beach is very residential and as such, devoid of the crowds that descend on other South Carolina vacation spots. Instead of high-rise hotels and resorts, visitors will find charming vacation rentals and quiet beachfront campgrounds.
Spend your days exploring the shore that snakes along Palmetto Boulevard, or head on over to Edisto Beach State Park for hiking and biking trails and a nearly 2-mile stretch of seashell-covered sand. Edisto is a fantastic beach for shelling and shark's teeth or other fossil hunting.