Hilton Head Island

Palmetto Dunes

Oceanfront resort community

Three miles of beach, three championship courses, and the island's largest lagoon system.

Setting
Oceanfront · gated
Golf
3 championship courses
Water
11-mile lagoon
Home styles
Villas → estates

The character

Palmetto Dunes is Hilton Head's classic oceanfront resort community — three miles of Atlantic beach, three championship golf courses, and an 11-mile lagoon system that's the largest on the island and doubles as its own kayaking and fishing highway. Laid out beginning in the late 1960s, it sits mid-island and security-gated, with nearly everything a resident or visitor needs held inside the gates.

The golf spans a Robert Trent Jones oceanfront course, a George Fazio course, and the Arthur Hills course over in Leamington, while the Palmetto Dunes Tennis & Pickleball Center is one of the top racquet complexes in the country. Shelter Cove Harbour sits right at its edge for dining and boating. It's an amenity-dense, rental-friendly community — which makes a certified, move-in-ready home here especially easy to read.

Life here

  • Three championship courses — Robert Trent Jones, George Fazio, Arthur Hills
  • Three miles of Atlantic beach with beach access and services
  • The island's largest lagoon system — kayaking, canoeing, and fishing
  • The Palmetto Dunes Tennis & Pickleball Center
  • Shelter Cove Harbour & Marina dining and boating next door

Best for

  • Beach-and-golf buyers who want oceanfront resort amenities at the door
  • Second-home and rental-investment owners — it's a rental-friendly community
  • Households who want villas-to-estates choice inside one gated resort

Home styles

A full range — from lock-and-leave oceanfront and lagoon villas and condominiums to large single-family and oceanfront custom homes, in coastal-contemporary and Lowcountry styles.

Certified turnkey homes in Palmetto Dunes

Move-in-ready, with the report on file.

As homes in Palmetto Dunes earn their Key, they appear here — pre-inspected, prepped, and fully disclosed. No firehose of every listing; only the certified ones.

Palm Frond
$789,000
Palmetto Dunes, Hilton Head
4 bd 3 ba 2,760 sqft
Palmetto Key report on file

Preview. Illustrative of how a certified Palmetto Dunes listing will appear — not real inventory. The founding roster is being signed now.

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