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{{Short description|State park in South Carolina, United States}}
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{{One source|date=January 2022}}
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| name            = Devils Fork State Park
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| photo_caption   = [[Lake Jocassee]] in Devils Fork State Park
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| nearest_city    = [[Salem, South Carolina]]
| area            = {{convert|622|acre|km2|1}}
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| created         = 1990
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| camp_sites      = Regular campgrounds, primitive boat-in, and RV sites are available
| hiking_trails   = 2 
| other_info      = Boating, fishing, many species of fish, including rainbow trout.<ref name="otherinfo">{{cite web|url=http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/park-finder/state-park/1355.aspx|date=2007-05-06|title=About This Park - Devils Fork State Park - South Carolina State Parks}}</ref> 
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'''Devils Fork State Park''' is in northwestern [[South Carolina]] on the eastern edge of the [[Sumter National Forest]] at the edge of 7,500-acre (3,035&nbsp;ha) [[Lake Jocassee]]. It is located three miles (5&nbsp;km) off [[South Carolina Highway 11|SC 11]], the Cherokee Scenic Highway, near the town of [[Salem, South Carolina]].

The park offers [[hiking]], [[camping]] (including several paddle-in primitive sites), [[canoeing]] and [[kayaking]].  The park is well known for [[rainbow trout|rainbow]] and [[brown trout]], as well as [[largemouth bass|largemouth]], [[smallmouth bass|smallmouth]], and [[white bass]], [[crappie]], [[bream]] and [[catfish]].  The park has accommodations for [[Scuba diving|scuba]] divers, including a walk-in ramp; thirty foot visibility is common, and due to the lake's recent creation, roads, houses, signs and other marks of human habitation can be seen on the lake bottom.

The {{convert|622|acre|km2|1|adj=on}} park was created in 1990. The park has many small waterfalls that feed lake Jocassee, and is home to the [[Oconee Bell]], a wildflower indigenous to [[North Carolina|North]] and South Carolina that grows throughout the park; more than 90 percent of the world population of these delicate white and pink flowers is found in the park.

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==External links==
*[http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/park-finder/state-park/1355.aspx Official website]
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928154303/http://www.oconeecountry.com/devilsforkstatepark.html Devils Fork State Park Pictures & Map]}}

{{South Carolina State Parks}}
{{Protected areas of South Carolina}}

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[[Category:State parks of South Carolina]]
[[Category:State parks of the Appalachians]]
[[Category:Protected areas of Oconee County, South Carolina]]