South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Recommended fall foliage destinations across the region include Sassafras Mountain, Pickens County, South Carolina's highest peak at more than thirty-five hundred feet with a three hundred and sixty degree observation platform overlooking South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.

Managed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources with no admission fee.

Table Rock State Park, Pickens, South Carolina.

The two-mile lakeside trail circles Lake Oolenoy and offers views of Table Rock Mountain reflected in the water, while the three-point-six-mile Table Rock Trail and four-point-two-mile Pinnacle Mountain Trail climb to higher overlooks for more experienced hikers.

Males are heavier than females.

I was amazed to read at SCDNR's site about these bears that 80% of their food is from berries, nuts, and other plant material.

20% is from insects and other kinds of real meat.

With a great sense of smell, bears also find food in trash cans.

And that's what Morgan Island was designed to be, a self-replenishing lab monkey factory.

Now, today the island is owned and managed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, but the monkeys themselves are owned by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Visitors are banned to protect the colony from illness and disturbance, and while the monkeys spend their days, you know, just monkeying around, this... happens to be serious business.

The whole island is monitored by surveillance cameras, which makes me think that somewhere in the basement of some government building, there's a person whose job it is just to watch the monkey cams.