| World Class Sports and Activities | | | | picturesque two-part swimming pool. |
| Fifty four holes of championship golf wind through | | | | The Hilton at Palmetto Dunes also has balconies |
| the Palmetto Dunes community in Hilton Head | | | | attached to each room, as well as separate |
| Island. Spread over three courses, golfers enjoy | | | | adult-only and family swimming pools, Hi-Speed |
| these challenging links designed by George Fazio, | | | | Internet, and the Ocean Tides Spa. |
| Arthur Hills, and Robert Trent Jones. | | | | Oceanfront and Golf Oriented Real Estate: |
| The Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center boasts 25 | | | | Housing options in Palmetto Dunes include private |
| courts. 23 are clay and two are prime Nova | | | | real estate as well as houses and villas ("Villas" is |
| ProBounce; eight of the courts are lighted at night, | | | | the local term for condominiums.) that are |
| and instructors offer private lessons and adult | | | | marketed for rental. As a distinctive feature |
| junior clinics. Since 1975, Tennis Magazine has | | | | Palmetto Dunes has two security gates manned |
| ranked the center among the top 50 in the nation. | | | | 24 hours a day. Access into the private residential |
| Over 11 miles of connecting lagoon systems are | | | | areas, as well as the resort areas, is strictly |
| great for kayaking through Palmetto Dunes. | | | | controlled. Views include woods, golf course, |
| Guided tours are offered on a complementary | | | | lagoon, or oceanfront. |
| basis by the community's naturalist. These lagoons | | | | Home prices range from $600,000 to $6.5 million, |
| are also a great place to do a little fishing and | | | | making this plantation one of the island's most |
| crabbing! | | | | exclusive. Villas are priced between $150,000 and |
| Shelter Cove Harbour, bordering Palmetto Dunes | | | | $4.5 million. Complexes include Windsor Court, |
| to the west, offers canoeing, deep-sea fishing and | | | | Captain's Walk, Somerset, Hampton Place, |
| sailing charters, and other water sports. The | | | | Villamare and the Townhomes at South Shore, |
| deepwater marina on Broad Creek is accessible | | | | among others. A few home sites are available for |
| from the Atlantic; its 15.5 acres contain 170 boat | | | | sale in Palmetto Dunes. Lot prices range from the |
| slips for 120-ft boats. Shopping, dining, | | | | $400,000s upward, as high as $7 million for an |
| entertainment and bike paths create many | | | | oceanfront parcel. |
| diversions for residents and vacationers alike. | | | | Short History: |
| Luxury Vacation Rentals and Resorts: | | | | The Hilton Head Agricultural Company owned the |
| If you are planning a vacation for your family this | | | | only 1,900 acres of hunting land left on Hilton Head |
| summer and still are not sure where to go, I | | | | not already owned by developers Hack, Fraser, or |
| recommend going to Hilton Head Island, South | | | | McIntosh,. The tract finally sold in 1967 to the |
| Carolina. The first thing I would do is look to book | | | | Palmetto Dunes Corporation (outbidding Fraser) |
| one of the beautiful Hilton Head Island Vacation | | | | for $1,000 per acre. |
| Home, Condo or Villa Rentals online. This luxury | | | | The Palmetto Dunes community was intended to |
| getaway is just forty five minutes away from | | | | outshine any previous island projects as a much |
| Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport. | | | | more intense vacation experience. While other |
| Befitting a resort-residential combination | | | | plantations were either major resort destinations |
| community, Palmetto Dunes contains numerous | | | | or private residential areas, Palmetto Dunes' |
| upscale vacation facilities including the Marriott, | | | | founders incorporated both ideas by building a |
| Hilton and Disney resorts and several oceanfront | | | | second internal gate separating its private |
| luxury hotels in Hilton Head Island. | | | | residential sector from the ritzy vacation areas. |
| Highly popular is the Hilton Head Disney Resort, | | | | Later, in 1971, Phipps Land Company and Trans |
| which offers over 120 villas/studio units occupying | | | | International Properties Corporation of New York |
| 20 three-story buildings on its own island in Shelter | | | | together purchased and incorporated the resort. |
| Cove. The main resort building has a | | | | (PLC had earned a success as the first major |
| uniquely-shaped heated swimming pool, a | | | | financial provider for Sea Pines Plantation). |
| waterslide, a wading pool, and a large whirlpool | | | | Palmetto Dunes was subsequently sold to |
| spa. It also has a shuffleboard court, horseshoe | | | | Greenwood Development Corporation (formed in |
| pits, and bocce games. Part of the island's Disney | | | | 1978 by Jim Self of Greenwood Mills) in 1979. |
| Resort is its 13,000 square foot Beach House, | | | | Ownership and management of the community |
| covering 3.5 acres of oceanfront land, complete | | | | was finally conveyed to the Palmetto Dunes |
| with a temperature-controlled, 50-foot-long | | | | Property Owners Association on January 1, 2006. |
| swimming pool, a children's soft-floored pool/play | | | | Whether you are looking to spend your vacation, |
| facility, arcade games, dressing rooms, covered | | | | to celebrate your wedding in Hilton Head Island or |
| parking, and a poolside bar. | | | | to live here, you will enjoy exclusive and |
| The Marriott at the oceanfront has more than | | | | preferred tennis, golf and amenity privileges |
| 500 recently restored guestrooms with a balcony | | | | unique to this piece of paradise called Palmetto |
| for every accommodation and wireless high-speed | | | | Dunes - Hilton Head Island. |
| Internet. Its popular pool deck features a | | | | |