//Hiking the Foothills Trail: What to know before you lace up your boots

Hiking the Foothills Trail: What to know before you lace up your boots

The Foothills Trail is no longer a best-kept secret.

Between Sassafras Mountain (the highest point in South Carolina at 3,553 feet) and Lake Jocassee, the Foothills Trail traverses roughly 77 miles of the Southern Appalachians from Table Rock State Park to Oconee State Park. Remote, thickly forested and cut