Tent rules touted in Myrtle Beach area

Lisa Greenwood of Virginia didn't mind getting a visit from an officer as she lounged under a tent on a steamy Horry County beach this week.

The officer told her about new rules for tents on the beach, asking her to move hers a few feet so it wouldn't be too close to another one in case rescue workers had to bolt through there. Greenwood, who enjoys using a tent on the beach to take breaks from the sun, didn't mind.

"Hey, we'll move them back," she said. "As long as we can still put them up. Just don't take our tents away."

Area leaders tweak proposed tent rules

Beach-goers couldn't use tents larger than 12 feet by 12 feet on all area beaches under a plan approved by a group of mayors today.

The Coastal Alliance, which endorsed a list of 23 proposed beach rules a month ago, tweaked two parts of the plan today, upping the size of tents allowed from the proposed 10 by 10 and decreasing the area around piers where swimming and other water activity would not be allowed, to 75 yards from the proposed 150 yards.

The proposed rules are making their way to each local government in Horry County for consideration. The Coastal Alliance, a group of area mayors and Horry County Council Chairman Tom Rice, endorsed the rules aiming to avoid confusion among beach-goers about what is allowed on which beach. The alliance can’t set the rules, only recommend that Horry County and each city council approve them.

This is the first summer for new tent rules along Grand Strand beaches, and Horry County and North Myrtle Beach officers have been busy spreading the word amid a sea of colorful canopies that, at times last summer, nearly blanketed some parts of the beach and made it tough for lifeguards to see and emergency workers to maneuver around them. Tents aren't a big problem in Myrtle Beach, officials have said.

Several beachgoers who were using tents to keep themselves from burning, shield children or give them a place to take a break from the sun during their all-day beach excursion this week said they didn't know about the rules, but didn't mind them once they were told. Most were just glad the rules didn't ban tents from the beach completely, as some officials had initially proposed.

"We learned them today," Kenneth Hudson of Morganton, N.C., said after an Horry County officer stopped by the tent hours earlier to show them how to properly anchor the tent - their anchor lines were sticking out from the tent instead of being flush with it.

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