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