Overview
Litchfield Beach is an upscale community and an ideal place to live and  
raise a family. You can find the best of everything here --- beautiful white beaches, relaxed life style,natural beauty, and rich history, close to all the amenities of nearby Georgetown. This community is quaint, charming and secure, and yet totally compatible with modern lifestyles. Litchfield offers a gracious way of life.

Location
Litchfield is located on an eight-mile stretch of beach in the Waccamaw Neck section of Georgetown Country, South Carolina, tucked in between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway.

Litchfield is located 22 miles south of Myrtle Beach, 66 miles north of Charleston, SC, and 127 miles north of Hilton Head Island. The Myrtle Beach International Airport is only 25 minutes north on the Highway 17 By-Pass.

Geography
The Waccamaw Neck is a long, narrow stretch of land bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the west by the Waccamaw River, which is the largest fresh water section of the Intracoastal Waterway. The area has rolling terrain and beautiful wide, white beaches.
 
Recreation
Litchfield is an area rich in natural beauty and history. There is no commercialism on the oceanfront, but all the conveniences needed for a beach vacation are close at hand. The beach has been developed without the density of the beaches just north of Litchfield. You can enjoy crabbing, shelling, shrimping, birding, biking, canoeing or kayaking most months of the year. And of course, there is swimming and relaxing on the beautiful white beaches.

This area is home to a wealth of natural wildlife, such as little and great blue herons, snowy egrets, osprey, gulls and pelicans. You find fishing at its best here and migratory birds can be seen in the spring and fall. It's also quite common to see porpoises just beyond the breakers. In the spring, the dogwoods and azaleas are in bloom, and by April, water temperatures are rising and beach weather is back. Spring days are perfect for long walks on the beach.

Sea turtles nest on the local beaches, and at Huntington Beach State Park, just north of North Litchfield Beach, you can safely look at alligators.
Wildlife, as well as the world's largest collection of outdoor statuary, can be viewed at Brookgreen Gardens, a short five-minute drive away. Here, stately oaks shelter over 400 pieces of artwork, dating from the 19th century.

Georgetown County provides the region with 22 boat landings, an 800-foot fishing and observation pier, 74 beach access areas, stretching from Garden City to South Litchfield, a new soccer complex, and 9 new parks, bringing the total up to 40 Parks encompassing 378 acres. The County has 30 baseball fields, 3 football fields, 4 soccer fields, 4 multipurpose fields, 17 playgrounds, 10 tennis courts, 10 picnic areas, 9 volleyball courts, 19 basketball courts, 12 recreation centers and gymnasiums.


Special Attractions/Events
In nearby Historic Georgetown, you can steep yourself in more than 300 years of American history.  You can tour a 1700’s sea captain's home and visit the fascinating Rice Museum. There are walking, boat or tram tours of the historic district.

There are charter trips three days a week to Bull Island off Cape Romain, south of Georgetown. It is a 30-minute boat ride to the island for a day of fantastic shelling. Bull Island is wildlife undisturbed and features 250 species of birds, 16 miles of trails as well as Boneyard Beach.

Myrtle Beach is a half-hour north, and offers fabulous entertainment complexes with top name country entertainers.

"Atalaya," is the former winter home of Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington, and the site every year for the Atalaya Arts and Crafts Festival. Atalaya's Special Day and the Huntington Beach Surf Fishing Rodeo are special events also held here.

Litchfield has great restaurants. The crab soup is a specialty, but you can also choose plump jumbo shrimp, succulent oysters, soft shell or blue crab and the very freshest of fish. You can dine in settings ranging from casual to elegant.

Interesting Facts/Historic Buildings and Places
Brookgreen Gardens, in nearby Murrells Inlet, was developed in the 1930s by Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington on the site of four colonial rice plantations. It features more than 550 pieces of America's finest 19th and 20th century sculptures, exhibited among 2,000 species of plants. Guided nature cruises and kayak trips wind through the tidal creeks and abandoned rice fields, giving a closer look at the area's history and wildlife.

Litchfield Plantation is one of the oldest plantations in the area, and still beautifully preserved. The ghost of Litchfield, Dr. Henry Tucker, is said to return to haunt it. He was a doctor and one of the plantation’s former owners, who lived and died here before the Civil War. It is said that he has been seen by the later owners and residents of the plantation. The legend goes that the doctor would ride to his home at Litchfield Plantation, which he kept locked. His gatekeeper sometimes wasn't there and the tired doctor would beat on a bell furiously with his crop stick.  Eventually, he would tie his horse to the bell post, climb over the split log fence, and walk home. In later years, long after the doctor’s death, owners would sometimes hear the clanging of the bell. At times he would appear in the house or on the dark, back stairs.