At the gates of this tranquil community are resort facilities that include a magnificent Southern-style clubhouse, three championship golf courses (Barony and Robbers Row alternate as private courses on a monthly basis). Planters Row is always open to resort guests. Also part of the resort facilities is a five-star racquet club. The Port Royal Racquet Club, former home of the World Couples Mixed Doubles Championship, is one of only four places in the country that has three grand slam surfaces. A championship croquet court is one of the two regulation croquet courts in the State of South Carolina and the site of the 1986 U.S. Croquet Championship.

Located just outside its borders is The Westin Resort and calls Port Royal Plantation its oceanfront home offering fine dining, a superb health club and is rated the only AAA five-diamond hotel in the Carolinas.

One of the original Hilton Head Island Plantations, its site is rich in Civil War History. The Confederate Ft. Walker was destroyed, but the earthen works of Ft. Sherman, built in 1852 and named for General Thomas W. Sherman of the Union Army, still stand. The remains of one of the few steam cannons in U.S. military history is found within the Plantation. It was built in 1902 and fired only twice before it was dismantled.