What is the reason for the fees at Live oak? Is it for the ramp? or to enter the park? Does the park maintain the ramp or does DNR? Are those volunteers at the “guard shack”? If this is a DNR ramp, should we be paying an additional fee to SC State Parks to use it? My fishing license is supposed to maintain the public ramps right? I’m sort of beatching but what gives? I used the ramp at the marina (private: $10-understandable) once over the past week and had to use Live Oak on the latter part of the week because of the Gov. Cup. Just a question…Nothing to get too riled up about! Right?
Live Oak is State Park ramp. You pay “Per Head” to get in and you can use ramp or go to Discovery Center. I use Marina, Dawhoo, or Steamboat.
You use to just have to have a park pass or buy one $5 launch ticket. They changed after opening Discovery Center - have not been back.
J Ford
You can pay $75 for an annual pass. Last year they raised it to $75 from $50. Big increase! The per-head business is BS
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Total BS in my opinion also. AND the ramp is sketchy at best on a spring low. I quit with them last year and am now learning the North Edisto. Missing fish creek though…
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Today the kids rode their bikes back there. They wanted to look at the creek on the dock. The lady there told them it would be 5$ each.
They will not see another dime from me. What a bunch of crooks.
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yeah, thier fee rates are crazy. My wife and I took the boat there to drop it in the water then I was going to take the boat around to our rental house and she was going to take the truck back to the rental house, we had to pay for both of us to go in and we werent there 10 minutes total. When I go to edisto to stay on the creek I try to make sure I launch and retrieve the boat at dead high tide too.Easy enough if youre staying there but to just go fishing it can be a pain.
The state parks started charging entry fees for all parks when the legislature cut appropriations and moved to a user fee model. Same applies to DNR activities even though the benefit accrues to all citizens in improvement of quality of life, etc. anglers and hunters foot the bill.
The fee is an entrance fee for the state park, same as SC state parks. The park maintains the landing. It is mostly volunteers at the entrance shack. The Discovery center is free unless they have changed it as it is mostly funded by DNR. I buy the annual pass $75 ($37.50 if you are over 65) and it is good at all the SC State Parks. I agree they should make changes for fees to the boat landing but I doubt they will unless your state senator or house of represenative gets enough encouragment from the public. Let them know.
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