About: Contains 1,540 acres of hardwood and mixed pine forest in the Paris Mountains just north of Greenville. The park has more than 12 miles of trails leading through forests and around four lakes (Lake Placid, Mountain Lake, Buckhorn Lake and North Lake). The 13-acre Lake Placid offers swimming and fishing. There also are picnic areas.
About: Bunched Arrowhead HP, offers a 1.25-mile hiking trail that traverses a diversity of habitats. Owned and managed by the SC Department of Natural Resources, the 334.7-acre Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve Complex is comprised of five heritage preserves (Bunched Arrowhead HP, Blackwell HP, Clear Creek HP, Belvue Springs HP, and Core HP) that were purchased to protect the federally endangered bunched arrowhead plant, Sagittaria fasciculata. This plant occurs in wetland seeps within a rare habitat known as the Piedmont seepage forest. Other rare plants found on the properties include climbing fern, Lygodium palmatum, and dwarf-flowered heartleaf, Hexastylis naniflora.