The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort

The Sanctuary sits on Sanctuary Beach Drive, a twenty-minute walk from Kiawah Beachwalker Park. Its grounds share the island’s coastline with Night Heron Park, placing the resort directly against the Atlantic dunes.

While the resort’s scale leans toward the grand, the draw here is the isolation. Many visitors head to Charleston to experience the tight, crowded corridors of the historic center, but The Sanctuary offers the opposite experience: vast, quiet stretches of private shoreline. The resort works as a retreat for those who prefer the hum of the ocean to the bustle of the city’s dense streets. Even when the resort is at capacity, the surrounding beach provides enough space to avoid the crush typical of the mainland’s more popular coasts.