10 Places You Recognize From South Carolina That Showed Up In Famous Movies

South Carolina can be seen as a little Hollywood of sorts considering how many movies have been filmed here. Producers seem to love our beautiful country and I don’t blame them because we do have some of the most amazing landscapes in our pie shaped state. Here are some places in South Carolina you may recognize from famous films!

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You may remember this road as it is the same road that was used in Forrest Gump when Forrest was told to run by Jenny.

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You may well remember these places above. Botany Bay was the backdrop where they held the slave camp on the beach and Cypress Gardens still holds remnants of props from the movie. However, some of the "ruins" are now gone and there is less there than in the picture above, but you can still tell where it was.

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Boone Hall Plantation, which I'm sure everyone in South Carolina knows, was used as the Hamilton's summer home. Remember the restaurant where Noah looked through the window and saw Allie dining with her fiancé ? That place was none other than High Cotton of Charleston, SC. Yes, you can go there and dine too!

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Who in South Carolina doesn't know this place? It's the Darlington Raceway where Days of Thunder's racing scenes were filmed.

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I bet there are a lot of you out there who know this scene! It's actually a pier in the Isle of Palms where Savannah and John met.

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And, this place is the College of Charleston where Savannah read and wrote a lot of her letters to John.

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South of the Border...you either hate the place, love it, or find it fun but just a bit cheesy. However! This is where one of the scenes was filmed for the movie Forces of Nature with Sandra Bullock.

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Am I the only one who remembers this movie? I'm a D'Onofrio fan so it just goes that I would know this one. However, this is Parris Island and it's the place where a lot of the scenes for this movie were filmed.

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Do you know where this is? It's the Ocean Course golf course where scenes were filmed for the movie. What a beautiful and peaceful place to play!

There was a part in Cold Mountain where Inman was speaking to a blind man. That was filmed in Charleston at the College of Charleston.

Cypress Gardens was also part of the scenes of Cold Mountain. The beauty of our state just can't be compared!

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I know a lot of the younger generation will not have even heard of this movie, but our beautiful Jocassee Lake and Chattooga River were used in the making of the film.

How long do you think this list would have been if I mentioned EVERY movie that was made in South Carolina? I don’t know if I could answer that myself, but I can guarantee that I wouldn’t have been able to fit it all in one article. You can say for an absolute certainty that South Carolina is loved by Hollywood!