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Hilton Head Area General
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Hilton Head
Island is one of South Carolina's most beautiful barrier islands
with wide, sandy beaches and 7 ½ foot tides. It is shaped like
a foot with an approximate measure of 4 miles by 12 miles.
Development
here is environmentally friendly with building covenants that
give the island a special character. There are restrictions to
set-backs, elevations, building materials, signs, colors and
use. Many acres are reserved for non-development, public parks,
beach access and nature preserves.
Hilton Head
Island is a terrific place to live and visit. There are many
championship golf courses, numerous tennis clubs, several
marinas, plentiful shopping, many fine and casual restaurants,
arts and many other year-round activities.
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The
weather is sensational and with four distinct seasons. Our
winters are generally short and very mild. The spring and
fall seasons are temperate - perfect for golf and just about
anything. Summer is when the family vacation season swings
into full gear.
Every
spring, Hilton Head Island hosts the PGA Tour's WORLDCOM
Classic, The Heritage of Golf held at the world famous
Harbourtown Golf Club. It follows the Masters, held at Augusta
National, so there is always an impressive field of players.
There is a
wide variety of real estate from which to choose, both luxury
and economical properties for year-round living and
vacation-investment use. This site has plentiful information
about the many possibilities so please, come and join us!
The Hilton Head
Area and Development
The Hilton Head area includes Hilton Head Island, Bluffton, Okatie,
Hardeeville, Ridgeland and Daufuskie Island South Carolina. Sometime we
use “Hilton Head” in this site to refer to Hilton Head Island and the
surrounding areas. The growth and development of Hilton Head Island has
exploded into Bluffton, the next town across the bridge. Many of the
Bluffton residential planned and gated communities follow the pattern of
Sea Pines Resort, the community that ‘wrote the book on building
covenants and gated communities. Some people from Bluffton say that they
live in “Bluffton-Hilton Head”. The retirement community of Sun City
Hilton Head is 13 miles from Hilton Head!
The original bridge to Hilton Head Island was built in 1950. It opened
and closed every time a boat sailed down the Intracoastal Waterway from
Skull Creek to Calibogue Sound. Today the Island is almost fully
developed and The Town continues to make improvements. An example that
is underway is the ‘Bridge to the Beach’ project that will improve
bicycle and pedestrian traffic from the Charles Fraser Bridge at Broad
Creek to the Forest Beach public beach access at the Coligny Circle.
There will be new bike paths and bridges from the beach on both sides of
Pope Avenue and a new Compass Rose Park dedicated to Sea Pines Founder
Charles Fraser at the corner of Pope Avenue and New Orleans Road.
Another example underway is the renovation of Mathews Drive, a
mid-Island thoroughfare. This undivided two-lane road will have bike
paths on both sides and will be widened to have turning lanes and
landscaped medians. There will be new traffic circles at Marshland Road,
Beach City Road and between Port Royal Plaza and Woodlake Villas.
The Town of Bluffton, SC has come a long way since the Maye River beach
and boating areas were the attraction for a small group of Southerners
each summer. Today, Bluffton and Beaufort County are among the fastest
growing areas in the State of South Carolina with new residential
communities and commercial developments added every year. This
development continues toward Hardeeville, Ridgeland, Beaufort and
Savannah, Georgia. This region is part of the South Carolina low
country, your future home.
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