Waterfront Park, Harbor park in Charleston, South Carolina.
Waterfront Park is a waterside green space along the Cooper River featuring fountains, wooden piers, and landscaped gardens beneath oak and palmetto trees. The property includes open areas for walking, sitting, and viewing the water from different vantage points throughout the grounds.
The site was formerly a working harbor with shipping terminals and cargo facilities that served maritime trade in the mid-1900s. It was redeveloped into a park in the late 1980s after cargo operations moved elsewhere.
The Pineapple Fountain in the lawn in front of the City Gallery takes its shape from the pineapple, a symbol of hospitality. Vendue Wharf, a wide wooden pier, holds sheltered swings, and a floating dock at its end faces the Ravenel Bridge, Castle Pinckney, the USS Yorktown at Patriot's Point and Fort Sumter.
The park is open during daylight hours and accessible to visitors on foot at their own pace. Being an outdoor space, there are no admission charges, and it is easily reached from several nearby streets in the downtown area.
The pier at Vendue Wharf extends into the Cooper River about as far as the Tidewater Terminals facility once did, and charred pilings from a June 1955 steamship terminal fire remain visible beside it. The southern pier at North Adger's Wharf was rebuilt on its original footprint using granite fished out of the river and log cribbing of native palmetto trees.
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