Photo #29036 - Sumter National Forest - Western boundary. Visitors to the Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests find many recreational opportunities. Some enjoy developed sites such as campgrounds find hiking, hunting, or horseback riding Bounded at one end by the port city of Charleston and at the other by the Blue Ridge Mountains, the South Carolina Heritage Corridor contains historic, cultural, and natural resources that tell the lively story of South Carolina's centuries long evolution and culture. Learn of rice and indigo, pirates and patriots, slaves and freemen, cotton fields and mill villages, swamps and waterfalls, railroads and back roads, spirituals and bluegrass.