Enjoy the Edisto at your own pace with a day trip on the river.

Don’t want to spend the night? No problem. We offer day trips with canoe or kayak rentals available.

Your fully outfitted day trip includes:

  • Canoe

  • Paddles

  • PFD (personal flotation device)

  • Safety Orientation

  • Transportation to the launch site

  • Secure parking

Our most popular canoe rental is a 10-mile day trip. You meet us at our outpost on Hwy 15 and we shuttle you upriver 10 miles. Spend the day in the wilderness surrounded by Cypress, pull up on a sandbar for lunch, or just leisurely meander down the river. You end your trip back at your car. This can take anywhere from 3-4 hours to all day if you have relaxation down to an art.

If you plan to be out 2 or more days and prefer primitive camping to staying in the treehouses, we launch you further upriver, typically for a 23-miles overnight.  When water is low there is sand bank camping along the river.  We also offer primitive woods camping on our refuge. 

2024 Season Day Trip Pricing

$40 per person

If guest provides their own canoe or kayak: $35

Please call ahead to reserve canoes to ensure that boats are available and that one of us is present at the outpost, not wandering around somewhere in the woods. 

Our Story

Founded in 1989, Carolina Heritage Outfitters is the original outfitter and the only treehouse camping on the Edisto River in South Carolina. Owner Chris Burbulak and our CHO Crew invite you to call us or email us with any questions you may have about an Adventure on the Edisto.

When you are floating down the Edisto to your private overnight site, walking the Edisto River Refuge’s trails, or relaxing on the deck of your private treehouse, you are in a fragile ecosystem, an annual flood plain (thus Treehouses). Great blue herons, egrets, wood storks, pileated woodpeckers, wood ducks, wild turkeys, deer, muskrats, and raccoons are residents on the refuge. Frogs and owls serenade.

Whether it’s a wilderness day trip canoeing through the Cypress Trees of the Edisto or a relaxing and quiet stay in one of our three man-made Treehouses, Carolina Heritage Outfitters would love to have you as our guest.