"S" is for South Carolina National Heritage Corridor. The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor is a grassroots-led heritage tourism initiative that brings together communities throughout a fourteen-county region from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Oconee County to the Atlantic Ocean along Charleston and Colleton Counties. Receiving congressional recognition in 1996 as a “national heritage area” and funded in part by the National Parks Service, the Heritage Corridor is more than a regional tourism promotion effort. Discovery Center that help interpret and guide visitors to designated sites within each of the fours regions of the corridor. Two parallel automobile routes run its length and tie together related attractions. The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor is managed by the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism under an agreement with a nonprofit board of directors.