Where do you enter free RBC Heritage parking on Hilton Head’s north end? Is traffic bad?
There’s no general spectator parking in Sea Pines this year for the RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing.
Instead, fans can park at the Coastal Discovery Museum at 70 Honey Horn Drive on Hilton Head Island’s north end.
From there, shuttles are whisking spectators to Harbour Town Golf Links, operating from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily through Sunday.
But how do spectators get into Honey Horn?
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, in an alert early Wednesday, recommended that drivers use the rear entrance to Honey Horn, which is off eastbound U.S. 278 and east of the Spanish Wells-Wild Horse roads intersection. Signs with Honey Horn parking instructions were visible Thursday along U.S. 278.
A reporter on Thursday afternoon also was able to get into the free parking area via Honey Horn Drive, which is off Gumtree Road.
How busy has traffic been?
The island is packed. That much is clear.
Accounting for both eastbound and westbound traffic on Wednesday, more than 66,500 vehicles passed over Jenkins Island on U.S. 278, according to the S.C. Department of Transportation.
Maj. Bob Bromage, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office, said Thursday that motorists should expect increased traffic on Hilton Head and delays at the south-end Sea Pines Circle during the tournament.
It appears to be a typical, busy Heritage week on the island.
Angela McSwain, director of marketing and communications for the Heritage Classic Foundation, previously said that tournament organizers expect 120,000 spectators to attend the event between Tuesday and Sunday.
For context: In 2019, there were 135,000 attendees, according to tournament organizers.
“We realized on Saturday in 2019 we couldn’t get another person on the course. Traffic, parking, gallery movement, lines at concession stands and restrooms ... those things did not make for an optimum experience. We’ve come off that number of tickets,” Steve Wilmot, the tournament director, recently said.
This story was originally published April 14, 2022 at 2:30 PM.
