Located only nine miles from the center of Columbia, Harbison Environmental Education Forest is a lovely forest park spread across 2,137 acres of forest land. Bordered on one side by the Broad River, the forest has more than thirty miles of trails and roads that take hikers, bikers, and joggers through the dense pine and hardwood forest, across cool streams and pleasant leafy glades to the tranquil Broad River.

The forest is mostly maintained to serve as recreational and educational green space for Columbia and South Carolina. Some portions of the forest are used to demonstrate various modern forestry practices such as planned burning and thinning, planting, site preparation, and harvesting.

PO Box 21707, Columbia, South Carolina, Phone: 803-896-8890

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