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The South’s Lowcountry region, between Charleston and Savannah, is full of wild charms and urban adventures—and the best way to see it all is a road trip between the two.

Charleston to Savannah has long been the ultimate southern road trip. Here’s how to do it right.

FOUR-DAY WEEKEND

THE NOVELIST Pat Conroy once summarized the Lowcountry and its legendary allure—which has captivated everyone from conquistadores and colonists to cultural lions such as Edgar Allan Poe—as a place that “can rise up and steal your soul with a moment so magical it seems like an exorcism.” Today, the region continues to live up to its near-mythical hype, with white-sand beaches, backwoods cypress for- ests, antebellum architecture, and enough comfort-food joints in between to fill a lifetime. Its anchor cities, Charleston and Savannah, draw visitors from around the globe, and you can easily make a four-day excursion in each, and perhaps have. Yet taken together, they showcase the best of what the Lowcountry has on tap—and can bookend an adventurous, 100-odd-mile afternoon road trip, filled with wild landscapes, offbeat pit stops, good grub, and gone-era charm, for an entirely new southern experience.