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Frequently Accessed Department and University Links
Links to Columbia and South Carolina
City of Columbia
SCIway - The Largest Directory of South
Carolina Information on the Internet
The State Newspaper
South Carolina Cities, Towns and Places
Columbia and the Midlands Area
South Carolina Parks, Recreation
and Tourism
Koger Center for the Arts
Captial City Bombers
Columbia Inferno
The
Carolina Center
Spoleto Festival USA
Riverbanks Zoo
About Columbia
Columbia, the state capital of South Carolina, offers cultural
and ethnic diversity and serves a metropolitan area of over 400,000
through a variety of artistic and recreational facilities and
programs. These include excellent community and university theaters,
several ballet and dance companies, numerous philharmonic
organizations and museums. The acoustically engineered
Koger Center for the Arts on
the University campus, is the home of the University Symphony and
Chamber Orchestras with numerous ballet, opera, and musical
performances offered on a regular basis. The
Carolina Center, which
opened in November of 2002, is the largest arena in the state of
South Carolina with 18,000 seats, and the tenth largest on-campus
basketball facility in the nation. Located on the beautiful
University of South Carolina campus, this one-of-a-kind facility
features 41 suites, four Entertainment Suites, and the Frank McGuire
Club, a full-service hospitality room that will have a capacity of
300. The state-of-the-art facility also features plush seating, a
technologically advanced sound system, a four-sided video
scoreboard, and a one-of-a-kind selection of unique concession foods
that will delight fans of all ages.
Just 15 miles from downtown Columbia,
Lake Murray, a 50,000 acre
man-made lake offers boating, sailing and some of the nation's best
fishing for largemouth bass. Within the Midlands area are located
attractive city parks such as the unique
Finlay Park
and Sesquicentennial State Park, and the Congaree National Monument,
the last significant stand of old river bottom hardwood forest. The
Riverbanks Zoo has been
named as one of the ten best zoos in the country. Columbia is also
the home of the Captial City
Bombers, a minor league baseball team of the NY Mets and to the
Columbia Inferno, our
minor league hockey team (Buffalo affiliation).
Columbia's climate can be described a sub-tropical with four
distinct seasons - long pleasant fall seasons, colorful springs and
mild winters. Summers are typically hot with frequent afternoon
thunderstorms.
The foothills of the Appalachian Mountains with their excellent
ski areas, as well as beautiful beaches and primeval coastal
islands, are within a few hours drive from Columbia.
Charleston,
South Carolina, with its ante-bellum charm is connected to Columbia
via I-26, making weekend visits and trips to the world famous
Spoleto Festival USA a
two-hour drive away.
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