Lake Marion together with Lake Moultrie form what is known as the Santee Cooper Lakes.  These lakes are connected by a canal called the Diversion Canal.  Lake Marion is the larger of the two lakes covering 110,000 acres, and Lake Moultrie covers 60,000 acres.   Both lakes are located in the lower part of the state near Charleston South Carolina. 

The Santee-Cooper Lakes cover land in 5 different counties including:  Berkeley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, and Sumter.  Clarendon County covers the most miles of shoreline of Lake Marion, and 
Berkeley County covers all of the shoreline of Lake Moultrie.

These legendary lakes were created during the early 1940's and have become a recreational paradise. People come from all over the United States to visit these lakes. The Cypress trees combined with the swampy wilderness add a scenic beauty to these lakes that set them apart from all the other lakes in the state.

The Santee Cooper Lakes make a great vacation get away.  There are numerous campgrounds, boat ramps, marinas, fishing guides, and many other lake businesses located here probably the most of any of the major lakes in South Carolina.   The Kingfisher Lake Map shown above and sold on this website provides the location and phone numbers of most of the lake side businesses on Marion and Moultrie. The Santee Cooper map also shows the all the boat ramps and highways around the lake.