Happy National Margarita Day! Folly Beach offers an abundance of bar and restaurant options where you can celebrate this famous cocktail concoction, whether you prefer yours frozen or on the rocks, with a salted or an unsalted rim. Taco Boy-For the perfect pairing of tacos and margaritas, stop by Taco Boy, a funky taqueria on … Continue reading National Margarita Day: Where To Get Your Margarita Fix On Folly
Charleston gets a lot of hype and hoopla in travel magazines as a top wedding destination, and deservedly so, but you would be remiss to overlook surrounding areas like Folly Beach. Not only are there beautiful beaches and pristine marshlands, there are plenty of places for your guests to stay and more affordable options for … Continue reading Five Reasons Folly Weddings Rule
Spring Break is quickly approaching and there is a lot to do on Folly Beach that make it the best place to spend the break while enjoying a little time off with your family. While we understand we can’t possible include everything to do in Folly in ten reasons, incorporate some of these plans and … Continue reading 10 Reasons to Spend your Spring Break in Folly Beach
If you’re dreaming up a Folly Beach vacation, chances are that you are thinking of long days at the beach. The beach is absolutely the main attraction when it comes to a Folly vacation, but when it comes to creating the perfect Folly vacation, it’s important to consider the reality of the beach. Sometimes hours … Continue reading Consider a Home With a Pool for Your Folly Vacation!
With only one ingress and egress on and off the island, traffic at Folly Beach can back up quickly, especially during peak season, holidays or festivals. Knowing the best times to arrive and depart probably still won’t help you avoid the traffic completely, but it can at least significantly reduce your gridlock experience, giving you … Continue reading Tips for Avoiding The Worst of Folly Beach Traffic
Folly Beach’s Center Street Landshark is a quirky landmark you may have noticed jutting out from a tourist shop next to City Hall, but just how did it get there and why? In 1991, not long after Hurricane Hugo ravaged the Lowcountry, Ed Hollingsworth and his friend Bill Perry derived a plan to mount a … Continue reading Landshark Landmark: Center Street Shark A Folly Fixture
There’s something inherently hopeful about starting a new calendar year – of hitting the reset button and beginning again with a fresh slate. That renewed sense of hope is the reason we march into each New Year clutching a list of resolutions meant to improve upon the people we were the previous year. We strive … Continue reading 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Beach Lovers
Let’s face it, if you’re a dog owner, most of the decisions you make about where to go to eat or have drinks are contingent upon whether the venue allows your pet to join you. If you’re visiting Folly with your pooch there is no need to fret: many great spots around town offer dog-friendly … Continue reading Places to Bring Your Pup: Dog-friendly Establishments on Folly
For most people, jumping into the water during the winter seems insane. Surfers know that swimming is awesome any time of year, even if they ultimately don wet suits. It’s common to see visitors from Canada lounging in the ocean in temperatures that would drive a good many of us into the closest heated building … Continue reading 5 Ways Cold Water Swimming Offers Health Benefits
There’s no better place to celebrate the best party night of the year than Folly Beach, and there’s no better venue to ring in the New Year than at Charleston’s only full-service ocean front hotel, Tides Folly Beach. Their New Year’s Eve Party kicks off at 8 p.m. and goes until 1 a.m. Festivities will … Continue reading New Year’s Eve Beach Bash at Tides
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when here by the sea, Not a creature was stirring, not even an anemone.Our flip-flops still sat in sandy piles by our doors,In hopes that the cold weather would soon be no more. The tan-legged little children were nestled snug in their beds,While visions of Rita’s root beer floats danced … Continue reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas — Folly Style
Jamie Wilson, a mother who was in search of something to do besides change diapers and feed babies, decided to do something different with her life. She decided to learn how to play music to distract her from the everyday doldrums that many new parents succumb to when they have young children—and Jamie had four … Continue reading ‘Jam on:’ Folly Beach Bluegrass Society endures as Bluegrass Buddies Acoustic Jam
During the summer of 1934, renowned American composer and pianist George Gershwin rented a cottage on Folly Beach while working with Charleston author DuBose Heyward to compose the music for the internationally acclaimed opera “Porgy and Bess,” based on Heyward’s 1925 novel “Porgy.” It tells the sad tale of Porgy, a crippled African American beggar … Continue reading Gershwin on Folly: Summertime and the livin’ was easy
Audubon has released an extensive new report called “Survival by Degrees: 389 Species on the Brink,” that shows the potential impacts on birds’ range, nesting and migration patterns from climate change. Primary findings indicate that two-thirds of bird species in North America are at risk of extinction from climate change. The study features a zip … Continue reading Audubon Study Shows Folly Birds Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
In the event that you are visiting Folly over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, we have compiled a list of restaurants and bars that will be open in some capacity on Turkey Day. We have also indicated which places will be serving some form of Thanksgiving-style fare. Rita’s Seaside Grille Rita’s Seaside Grille will be serving … Continue reading Folly Restaurants and Bars Open on Thanksgiving Day