About Folly Field & Sandcastle Development
Sandcastles by the Sea
A newly developed master-planned area in the Town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Its mid-island location is bounded by William Hilton Parkway and Folly Field Road.
This community includes a commercial area incorporating Adventure Cove-a miniature golf course and game arcade, Carrabba’s Italian Grille, and the Sandcastle Plaza mini-resort building nearing completion, as well as a gated single-family neighborhood where custom-designed homes are already under construction. Buy a lot and build your own dream house, or select from one of several models offered by reputable Island contractors!
Folly Field
Turn onto Folly Field Road beside the new Carrabba's Italian Grill on William Hilton Parkway, between Palmetto Dunes Plantation and Port Royal Plantation, and you will pass flower-named streets that could belong to any middle-class town in America. This is Folly Field, another of Hilton Head's oldest neighborhoods.
The first sign of renovation is in the lack of pavement on those first few streets you pass on the left-hand side; in preparation for new, smoother roadways, these streets are temporarily dirt roads. A few seconds more, and you pass the soon-to-be elite neighborhood of Sandcastles by the Sea, located on a massive spread of land formerly used as a driving range. Villa complexes and more single-family houses line Folly Field Road all the way to the beach, where you begin to see larger homes typical of Hilton Head's luxury reputation.
Formerly one of the island's oldest residential areas, Folly Field is undergoing vast remodeling and updating to become a major attraction as one of Hilton Head's premier vacation destinations for residents, beach-seeking families, and high-end vacationers.
Folly Field History
Folly Field is partially responsible for the explosion of Hilton Head Island as not only a vacation town, but a place to live. Olin McIntosh of the Hilton Head Company built the island's first beach cottages at Folly Field beach in 1953 to generate more ferry traffic from the mainland in hopes that the South Carolina government would then build a bridge to accommodate all the new residents and visitors. When the state still refused, the 1956 Hilton Head Toll Bridge Authority was organized and privately financed by businesses. The bridge worked beautifully, and tolls were removed within three years after their overwhelming success covered the HHTBA's debt.
Folly Field Amenities
Near Folly Field Beach and the Islander's Beach Park, which allows permit parking, this neighborhood contains playgrounds, picnic areas, and a boardwalk to the beach. Hilton Head Beach and Tennis Resort is also located here, as well as the still-under-development Sandcastles by the Sea community.
Folly Field Recreation
Athletics: Tennis
The Hilton Head Beach and Tennis Resort, under direction of Clint Van Aswegen,
is located entirely in the Folly Field neighborhood. 10 lighted, hard-surfaced courts are available for matches and/or lessons.
Adventure Cove
This family fun center has been here for as long as most islanders can remember. Instead of the world-class golfing greens of the gated plantation communities, Folly Field offers playful miniature golf, along with arcade games inside the Adventure Cove building.
