Free Charleston Scavenger Hunt: For Tourists and Locals

Charleston has so many sights to see, and this free scavenger hunt will lead you to all the best places, local haunts, and have you keeping an eye out for what makes Charleston unique! Below, is our free scavenger hunt, where you can click or tap each item to mark it as complete. And for the planners out there, you can drag and drop rows to change the order in case you want to map out everything in advance.

For a print-and-play instead, click the picture below and you can download and print that.

Charleston Scavenger Hunt

Read further for more information on how to play as well as additional scavenger hunt options we offer.

Scavenger Hunt Checklist for Charleston

ItemPoints
Rainbow Row4
Waterfront Park2
Pineapple Fountain5
Angel Oak Tree2
Battery & White Point Garden3
Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge4
Angel Oak Tree3
The Old Slave Mart Museum4
Nathaniel Russell House3
Cabbage Row4
Dock Street Theatre2
The Market Hall and Sheds5
The Charleston City Market1
The Vendue Rooftop5
Folly Beach3
Middleton Place5
Fort Sumter1
The Battery4
Angel Oak Park2
Drayton Hall3
Sullivan’s Island5
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens2
Rainbow Row3
Fort Moultrie1
Morris Island Lighthouse2
Middleton Place4
The Battery5
Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon3
Charleston Waterfront Park5
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens3
Rainbow Row2

How to Play

For this Charleston scavenger hunt, we’ve come up with a list of things to see in the city. Some of them are popular tourist attractions while others are more local secrets. For each item, you (or your team) will need to take a picture that shows both you and the listed item. For each photo you take, you’ll get the corresponding amount of points listed to the side of that item. 

At the end of the allotted time for the scavenger hunt, you can see what level of rank you’ve earned and whichever team has the most points wins! You’ll be allowed to go to City Hall and ask for a key to the city. (We haven’t actually made any arrangements, but it doesn’t hurt to ask, right?)

Additional considerations for how you play:

  1. We recommend three hours for the scavenger hunt just to have a limit on the time you’re focused on this activity, but that’s up to you.
  2. If you’re traveling as part of a group and don’t want to split up, we’d recommend treating this as a game of I-Spy and awarding points to whoever in the group spots the item first or takes the first photo.
  3. It’s up to you how tough you want to make it with respect to awarding points just for seeing something, or if you have to go inside, or taking it further and requiring even more depending on the location.

Score and Rankings

0-10: Did you even leave your hotel?
11-20: Business trip traveler
21-30: Frequent business trip traveler
31-40: Tourist
41-50: Lives in the next city over
51-60: Over-caffeinated tourist
61-70: Recent transplant
71-80: Local
81-90: Actually grew up here and has always lived here
91-100: Mayor

Think you’re the best ever? Let us know how you did in the comments (and how long it took you) and sign up for our newsletter to be alerted of other scavenger hunts, our challenges designed for only the top finishers, and more.

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