BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. – The Cypress Garden boat landing recently underwent a much-needed makeover, and to celebrate the completion, Berkeley County officials and the community held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday.
“This is a public safety project, access to waterway project, and there are just so many good things we can say about it,” Berkeley County Supervisor Johnny Cribb said during the ceremony.
County officials said improvements made to the boat landing, which is located at 3000 Cypress Gardens Road, will now offer more access and better amenities to anyone who enjoys boating, fishing and the great outdoors.
“For this project to move forward and allow expansion and for us to have a safe place to park our boats and trucks and be able to launch safely, it was definitely a huge accomplishment,” said Orlando Scott, a local fisherman who frequents the boat landing.
Prior to the expansion project, the landing had just 35 parking spots. Scott said the limited parking forced many boaters to park in unsafe locations, including up and down the side of the road.
“It was very, very unsafe. We had people coming down Buschy Park Road, and the parking lot actually tee’d there. So it was dangerous,” he said.
According to Cribb, the expansion project was made possible thanks to DuPont, which donated an acre of land to the county.
“One of our industrial partners, DuPont, who has been really great with the county over the years, they own the land that we needed. So we made the ask, and it was received really well,” Cribb said. “We were given about a million dollars worth of land for free to be able to do this project.”
Bill Alexander, a site leader for DuPont, said donating the land to expand the boat landing naturally fit in with the company’s core values.
“We couldn’t be prouder to be a part of this community. We want to be a good neighbor, so how could we pass this up? We are just so thankful to be a part of this, Alexander said.
The project was completed in-house by Berkeley County Roads & Bridges and Facilities & Grounds. Work included adding 91 boat trailer parking spaces; 47 passenger vehicle parking spaces; four handicap-accessible boat trailer parking spaces; one large covered pavilion; security improvements, and much more.
County officials also named the pavilion “Lonnie’s Lookout” after a long-time, frequent visitor of the landing, Lonnie McKnight.
According to Cribb, the Cypress Gardens boat landing expansion project cost $400,000 to complete.
In June, Cribb said the county will reopen Spiers Landing in Cross also following much-needed upgrades.
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