Take a look at my favorite places to visit in Charleston with my three kids!
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Hand feed many animals, enjoy one on one animal encounters, visit animals, from tigers to lemurs, to snakes and birds, giraffes and more.
Bee City Zoo
Enjoy boat rides, splash pad, alligator exhibits, swamparium, and the butterfly house!
Cypress Gardens
The South Carolina Aquarium is a fun place in Charleston where kids can see sea turtles, otters, sharks, and more. You can explore huge tanks, touch sea creatures, and learn how animals live in the ocean and rivers
South Carolina Aquarium
There’s so much to see, crammed into two rooms containing 1,000 fossils which includes dinosaur bones, crinoids, Pleistocene and Oligocene mammals, mosasaurs, cave bears, ocean life and fossil plants amongst others.
Exhibits include the reconstructed...
Mace Brown Dinosaur Museum
Paint ceramics, canvases, or create glass art!
Palmetto Clayground
The Children's Museum of the Lowcountry is a nonprofit organization with the mission to create innovative learning experiences in our museum and throughout our community that equip and inspire all children to become creative problem solvers.
Children's Museum of the Lowcountry
12,000 sq ft indoor playground located in North Charleston.
Bizzy Bee Indoor Playground
WRTS is committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and fun environment to foster learning, exploration and safe sensory experiences. Through our nonprofit My Brother Rocks The Spectrum Foundation, we provide social skills groups and activities for chi...
We Rock the Spectrum - Indoor playground
The world’s largest all inclusive playground!
Park Circle Playground
Playground, splash pad, tennis and basketball courts, picnic tables and pavilion.
Central Creek Park & Splash Pad
Located under the grand entryway to the town, at the base of the Ravenel Bridge, this park has plenty of lawn for enjoying family picnics, a nautical-themed playground modeled after the bridge that provides it shade and the boats that pass by in the ...
Mount Pleasant Memorial Waterfront Park
Charleston's Waterfront Park is the perfect venue to stretch out and soak up the scene. With a prime location overlooking Charleston Harbor and the Cooper River, and more than 10 acres of room to roam, (most of which is waterfront), Waterfront Pak is...
Charleston Waterfront Park - Pineapple Fountain
The Angel Oak receives approximately 400,000 visitors each year. The tree is 65 feet high with a circumference of 25.5 feet, shading an area of 17,000 square feet. The public is allowed access seven days a week. The park is closed holidays. Admissi...
Angel Oak Tree
This 664-acre site is home to an exhibit hall, rental facility, a natural habitat zoo, ongoing archeological excavations, miles of trails, dozens of picnic tables, a replica tall ship, six fireable replica cannon, and much more.
Charles Towne Landing
Middleton place offers a restaurant, an inn, beautiful gardens, carriage tours, free range sheep, and a rich history into Charleston.
Middleton Place & Gardens
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens is one of the nation's oldest and most frequented historical public gardens. The property also has ample wildlife viewing opportunities. This includes walking/biking trails and guided tours that provide access to mul...