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January North Myrtle Beach Winter Run Throughout North Myrtle Beach (843) 280-5570 This event includes the 5K and 15K road races for the Southeastern Region.
Myrtle Beach Wildlife Exposition Myrtle Beach Convention Center (843) 237-3899 Families can enjoy a wide variety of activities at this mid-January show to foster a deeper understanding of the importance of properly managing those resources.
February Burroughs & Chapin Company Children's Festival Myrtle Beach Convention Center (843) 626-6385 a fun-filled weekend of educational, cultural and safety-related presentations and exhibits for children and their families. More than 120 booths provide interactive presentations in the fields of science, art or health. Continuous entertainment includes dancers, tumbling acts, magicians, singers and storytellers. Children are given the opportunity to take part in various contests on stage.
Grand Strand Boat Show and Sale Myrtle Beach Convention Center (843) 238-0485 This early February show attracts up to 10,000 boating enthusiasts and more than 100 exhibitors displaying motor boats, fishing equipment, pontoon boats, sailboats, one-person kayaks, watersports gear including scuba-diving equipment
National Shag Dance Championships Celebrity Square, Broadway At The Beach, between 21st and 29th Ave. N., Myrtle Beach (843) 497-7369 For enthusiasts of the shag, the vintage dance born and bred in the Carolinas. This late February event, includes qualifying rounds for each of 38 spots in the national championships that take place in March at this same location.
March St. Patrick's Day Parade and Celebration Surfwood Shopping Center, North Myrtle Beach (843) 280-5570
South Carolina International Chili Cook-off Barefoot Landing, 4898 U.S. Hwy. 17 S., North Myrtle Beach (843) 272-8349 These serious contestants are known as "chiliheads", a group that numbers 50,000, who publish their own quarterly newspaper to keep up with trends and cooking events. The chili is evaluated by a panel of judges, and winners are in the running for the international grand prize of $25,000. Family entertainment is always a part of the cookoff.
Annual Canadian-American Days Festival Throughout Horry County (843) 626-7444 Coinciding with the spring school break in the Canadian Province of Ontario, Can-Am Days is a mid-March festival that attracts about 100,000 visitors from both Canada and the United States every year.
The Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show is an action-packed demonstration of chopping, sawing, logrolling (by men and dogs), ax throwing and dragster chain sawing -- all performed by world-champion lumberjacks.
Annual Doll Show & Sale Myrtle Beach Convention Center (843) 248-5643, (843) 448-7166 doll dealers from 15 states and more than 200 tables of related goods at this mid-March show.
Annual Georgetown Plantation Tours Throughout Georgetown (843) 546-2292 These plantation homes and colonial townhouses are only open to the public once a year in late March for this 51-year-old tour. All the homes are privately owned, and several are on the National Register of Historic Places. Histories and maps are provided. |