Hawkins Park Homes for Sale in Travelers Rest, SC

Hawkins Park covers Gaskins Trail, Rodessa Lane and Rosser Place, close in on the town side rather than out toward the mountains. That position is the argument for it: Main Street, the restaurants at the north end and the trail are all a short hop, and the drive down US-25 toward Greenville is about as direct as it gets from this part of the county.

The town it sits in

Travelers Rest got its name honestly. Mr. and Mrs. William Bishop kept an inn here where travelers rested before starting up into the Blue Ridge, and the road those inns lined is now US-25. The town incorporated in 1891, lost its charter, and took a second one in 1959 — it has been a small place for most of its history and has only recently stopped being one.

Schools and weekends

These addresses fall in Greenville County Schools. Feeders vary across Travelers Rest, so ask the district to confirm the assignment for a specific street before you buy. For weekends, the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail runs twenty-two miles along Main Street and down to the city on the old Greenville and Northern Railway bed. Paris Mountain State Park keeps 1,540 acres, Lake Placid and fourteen miles of trail between here and Greenville, all of it built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.