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Building on the enthusiasm for our 2024 Community Ride collaboration with the Greenville Spinners, we are excited to continue in 2025 with monthly rides with varied themes and routes. Biking and walking are great ways to connect with the community and create a strong sense of place, and we look...

  Seven weeks after Hurricane Helene hit our community, we are still marveling at the enormous community support that made the rapid Swamp Rabbit Trail recovery effort possible. With so many in our community and our friends in Western North Carolina working to rebuild on what will be a long...

Greenville County was awarded a $20,335,705 RAISE Grant and was the only recipient in South Carolina. The award was announced on June 26, 2024. Ty Houck is the Manager of Greenways and Natural and Historic Resources for Greenville County Parks, Recreation and Tourism, and led this successful grant application Ty...

Introduction Tanya Masvimbo is interning with Bike Walk Greenville this summer, and we are meeting by video conferencing from her home in Zimbabwe. She is majoring in Computer Science and Data Analytics, and will return to campus to start her Junior year in August. When we first interviewed her for...

Smart Growth America recently released their report, and our state is the third most deadly in the country for pedestrians. Soon after starting work as our Executive Director Jasmine Vanadore attended a webinar where the Smart Growth America team presented some compelling stories about how our roads have been designed...

We are pleased to announce our strong support for the 2024 Greenville County RAISE grant application, which was submitted this spring. This $17 million federal grant, if awarded, will fund the expansion and essential safety improvements to the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail Network, specifically near the Union Bleachery development...

Cycling advocates discuss opportunities for cycling in the Upstate and safety practices

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A Note from the Board Chair of Bike Walk Greenville Back in 2022, our strategic planning team met to discuss the next steps for our organization. As we looked back on what was almost a decade of advocacy for active transportation in Greenville, one major takeaway was how much we...

Modification to the speed humps in Cleveland Park Have you noticed the recent modifications to the speed humps in Cleveland Park to allow bike riders to pass without going over the humps? This is the result of our recent data driven advocacy with the City of Greenville. With the opening...

By Benjamin Simon bsimon@postandcourier.com Published Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:00 AM EST GREENVILLE — In South Carolina this week, you might have seen a man walking along the highway. He wears a neon vest, a pair of running shoes and pushes a stroller painted with white words: “I walked here from Washington.”...