Labor Day weekend around Florence runs on race time. On Southern 500 night the lights come up over Darlington Raceway, the old oval fans call the Lady in Black, and tire smoke and engine noise drift out across the rigs parked anywhere within earshot. A motorhome stretches one race into a week for the whole family: breakfast out of your own kitchen, everyone in their own bunk after the checkered flag, and the air conditioning running through a Labor Day that still feels like July.
Darlington's spring race brings the rigs back on a milder weekend, before the Pee Dee heat settles in. The speedway sells its own RV camping at the track, the closest you can sleep to the noise. Everyone who doesn't get a spot there fans out to the public campgrounds around Florence, so Lee State Park, Lynches River County Park and the pads near the track all fill on both race weekends, right when families are reserving the same motorhomes.
On those dates the booking order matters. Reserve the campsite first, because its length limit decides how big a rig you can bring, then rent the motorhome to fit it. Early September is also the tail of hurricane season, and storm remnants can turn a race night wet, so watch the forecast and keep the awning stowed when a front moves through.
Lee State Park and the Lynches River
Between races the Lynches River slows everything down. At Lee State Park it winds through floodplain forest, past stonework the Civilian Conservation Corps built and a fishing cabin on the water, and a parked week here means walks on the floodplain trail, a line in the river, and long evenings at the site with the air running. The park is just off I-20, an easy approach for a motorhome.
The campground is open year round with water and electric at every site, and length is the thing to check before you rent: some sites take RVs up to 36 feet and others top out at 30, as of October 2026. If a 30-foot site is what's left, or it's only the two of you, a campervan from South Carolina campervan rentals fits the pad with room to spare.
Lynches River County Park, pull-throughs under the pines
Florence County runs its own family campground at Lynches River County Park, with pads on natural ground under the pines beside the river park. Nobody has to back a long motorhome in with someone waving from the bumper, because every site is a pull-through with water and electric hook-ups. Reservations are required through the county's booking system, and on race weekends this is where rigs go when Lee is full, so it fills on the same dates.
Save a morning for Woods Bay State Park, where a boardwalk runs out over the black water of a Carolina bay between cypress knees and tupelo. It's the strangest walk in the Pee Dee and a day trip from either campground.
Florence sits where I-20 meets I-95, which puts the rest of the state in reach once the river week is done. The beach towns of the Grand Strand are east, covered under Myrtle Beach campervan rentals. The Santee Cooper lakes down I-95 are a Charleston RV trip, and the Upstate and Midlands lake weeks west along I-20 sit under South Carolina RV rentals.