Stumphouse Tunnel near Walhalla, South Carolina, is a perfect way to spend a day, as we recently discovered. If your travel plans include upstate South Carolina, North Carolina, or Tennessee, where the three states share their borders, this outing will provide a day of adventure along with a visit to the most-visited historic site in South Carolina.
We decided to explore the tunnel because we were fascinated by the unusual name and intrigued by its historic legend. In 1853, before the Civil War, the Blue Ridge Railroad Co. decided to attempt three routes through these beautiful blue granite mountains. The Stumphouse one was to be a link from Anderson, South Carolina, to Knoxville, Tennessee, by way of a tunnel through the southeastern face of Stumphouse Mountain.
