Wonderful farm, beautiful setting and owners who take care of the horses daily are what we are most…read moreimpressed with.

Gorgeous 58-acre farm with ample room for boarding horses. There are a number of fenced-in pastures…read moreincluding one for lessons, complete with unique jumps. This farms hosts about 2 dozen horses, a number of goats, rabbits, chicken, dogs, cats, and even has their very own bee colony! The rolling fields are perfect for your horse to graze, play, or learn, and it makes a relaxing spot for a bystander as well.

My sister and I loved our tour with Historic Columbia. We visited the Hampton-Preston house. The…read morestaff was very friendly and honored my sister's student discount even though she didn't have her ID with her. Our tour guide is a current history PhD student at USC. She was very knowledgeable and clearly had a passion for history. The tour group was small and intimate, allowing us to ask as many questions as we desired. I would love to go back sometime and do one of the three other tours. Highly recommend this group!

Perhaps I'm biased, but I love Historic Columbia and so should you. The houses are beautiful and…read morewell-loved, the tour guides are knowledgable and friendly, and the gift shop has something for everyone. They are in the process of updating and adding more landscaping which makes the surroundings of Robert Mills and Hampton Preston even lovelier. They also are out there doing good for the historical community and are very involved in helping preserve the history of Columbia. Finally, they are creative - they do historic happy hour tours, neighborhood walking tours, spooky nighttime graveyard walks, and awesome fundraising events. This is really an organization to be aware of and get involved with.

Stopped in on the way home from vacation. Plenty of friendly staff to help with any questions I…read morehad. The homemade peach soft serve ice cream was really good. The other ice cream was good but not to die for. The peach enchilada was good but would have been better hot. Bought some big ole peaches but have not ate one to comment on the taste. The homemade fudge is really good and at a great price point. Overall a nice stopping point for produce, peaches and to stretch. I would return when in the area. Five stars had the enchiladas been hot and the ice cream had a better taste.

Hyatt Park was a really pretty park, and I loved taking a few minutes out of my day to walk a few…read morelaps around it, explore the vegetation, and read the scientific and historical signage! I loved how the said signage explained how the plants used in the park were native to the local area, and explained a little about the history of the Eau Claire neighborhood. I'd definitely recommend anybody to stop by Hyatt Park if they're looking for a place to relax and gather their thoughts in an urban botanical setting!

Very nice fair! Good candy and food selection but somewhat smaller than other state fairs I've…read morevisited. Plentiful bathrooms too! There are lots of rides and games but I mainly go for the art displays and the animals. Definitely worth a try if you're in the area.

We typically visit the state fair every year either on one of the discount days or during lunch…read morebunch. This year I was lucky enough to win tickets from Live 93.5! There was definitely a noticeable increase in prices this year that left us questioning if we will go back next year or just spend the extra money to visit another state's fair like NC. The official parking is $20 so we opted to park in a nearby private lot for $10 and walk a little further. Kiosks have been added this year to purchase tickets if you don't already have them which I thought was nice. We typically stick to trying the new food items and this year there were several that we didn't get due to the price ($20 food sundae, $15 funnel cake, etc), but we did enjoy the cotton candy lemonade and cheesecake trio! My favorite item at the fair is the jalapeño corndog from Daley's and they gave me a cold one that wasn't worth the $10 and extra $1 for using a card. Entertainment seems to be generally the same each year and could definitely use refreshing. I'm not sure if it was advertised (I never saw anything beforehand), but Sandra Lee was one of the judges for the food competitions this year. I would have loved to have known in advance because I would have planned to visit when I could meet her.

Excellent Bourbon and American Whiskey tasting event. And the food was fabulous. Bourbon (the…read morerestaurant) never fails! 701 Whaley is a wonderful venue and it is always good to support the Historic Columbia Foundation. We had a great time and look forward to next year!

I recently attended the 2nd Annual Columbia Shrimp and Grits Festival. We had fun tasting the…read moresamplings and the band was great! There were many samples from a variety of restaurants. Many were from downtown, one was from Lexington, one was from the Harbison area. I would have liked to see more restaurants from different parts of town to be more inclusive of the area. Also, while the ladies from the Chickadee's restaurant were very friendly, they confessed that shrimp and grits were not their specialty and suggested we come to the restaurant for something else. They said they weren't even sure why they were there and that someone had invited them to participate. I also saw two of the cooks they had there pop a balloon and it startled some of the guests and they laughed. I would not recommend including them next year. All that said, there were plenty of excellent samples from restaurants and we left extremely full. There were door prizes which we registered to win but you had to be present at the end of the event to win. The event began at 6pm and ended at 10pm. It maybe took an hour to visit all the booths. This also allowed us to enjoy the band, vote for our favorite restaurants and chat with friends we ran into at the event. We arrived around 7 and were ready to leave by 8:15. We didn't want to wait at least another hour to find out if we won prizes. I think it would be better if you didn't have to be present to win or if the organizers decreased the time frame of the event to 2 hours. There were also some other vendors in the hallway. Some of them seemed relevant and were a nice addition (I'm looking at you cupcake company!) but there was someone there testing nerve responses and he was trying to convince people to participate as they were making their way in and out of the festival. It didn't seem to fit in with the event at all and I can't imagine it was beneficial to his business or the event. Tickets were $40 each for adults. I do believe this was a bit steep for what we received. Plenty of people obviously paid for tickets though as there was a good turnout for the event. We only had to wait in line a couple of times for samples though. Most of the restaurants were well prepared to handle the crowd. My favorite restaurant was Midlands (located in the Marriott downtown on Main and Hampton). They won best Shrimp and Grits from the judges and the people's choice award as well. I highly recommend you check them out! Or you can come to the festival next year and judge for yourself. With a little tightening up on the event it would be a phenomenal festival!

A few yrs back I visited the Crawfish Festival, which was a nice family day out! Paid parking was…read morepretty easy, and I believe they had buses to bring fest goers closer to the event. Pretty much they had all the food and drinks that all fest normally have, nothing remarkable different. I bought our tickets on Groupon to save a little. The lines were not long, some seating for people who bought crawfish plates. Lots of local bands and things for the kids to do. Being that I lived in Louisiana in the past I wasnt really impressed, but it was good to see everyone enjoyin and mingling around. Im used to driving up to a crawfish stand and grab 1lb bag for $5.00 witt corn & potatoes! When I went in 2015 the cost was $15.00 a plate, I see from other reviews the price has gone up. I gave it a 4* because Im all about any kinda fest with food and dranks...

This year's Crawfish Festival, was really great! The Crawfish was cooked to perfection, with a…read moreCajun burn just the way hubby and I liked them. The box of (mud bugs) crawfish you purchased was $18.00 dollars per box and you got two pounds per box of (mud bugs). The box also came with potatoes & corn on the cob. The beer was $5.00 a can. Other vendors sold blooming onion, chicken & lamb, gyros, hot dogs, elephant ears, and other various food items. The wait in line wasn't very long. The bands were all local ones. This years Crawfish Festival was ok, maybe other events were in place at the same time around the city? But it wasn't very crowded when we got here, the bands were ok!!! I don't know what happened, but again the Crawfish was amazing!!!