Neighborhoods In Charleston

Discover the best neighborhoods in Charleston with curated recommendations from our editors.

Edisto Island

On rural Edisto (pronounced ed-is-toh) Island, you'll find magnificent stands of age-old oaks festooned with Spanish-moss, and side roads that lead to Gullah hamlets and...

  • 4 Restaurants
  • 3 Hotels
  • 5 Things To Do

Lower King and the Market

Wandering through the neighborhoods surrounding the City Market and Lower King Street, it's obvious why filmmakers look to Charleston as a backdrop for historic movies...

  • 22 Restaurants
  • 21 Hotels
  • 40 Things To Do

Moncks Corner

This town is a gateway to a number of attractions in Santee Cooper Country. Named for the two rivers that form a 171,000-acre basin, the...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 4 Things To Do

Mount Pleasant

East of Charleston, across the beautiful Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, is the town of Mount Pleasant, named not for a mountain but for a plantation...

  • 11 Restaurants
  • 3 Hotels
  • 13 Things To Do

South of Broad and the French Quarter

Locals jokingly claim that just off the Battery (at Battery Street and Murray Boulevard), the Ashley and Cooper rivers join to form the Atlantic Ocean...

  • 13 Restaurants
  • 8 Hotels
  • 31 Things To Do

Summerville

Victorian homes, many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, line the public park in this intact small town that serves...

  • 1 Restaurants
  • 1 Hotels
  • 1 Things To Do

Upper King

Spanning northward from Calhoun Street on Charleston's main peninsula, Upper King and the surrounding areas are home to the city's newest and hippest restaurants and...

  • 33 Restaurants
  • 13 Hotels
  • 39 Things To Do

Walterboro

This sleepy Southern town makes Charleston look like Manhattan. Its main drag, East Washington Street, still looks much like it did in the 1950s. While...

  • 4 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 4 Things To Do

West of the Ashley River

Ashley River Road (Route 61) begins a few miles northwest of downtown Charleston, over the Ashley River Bridge. Sights are spread out along the way...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 0 Things To Do

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