Step into Action with Mobility Month Bingo!
May is National Walking Month, National Bike Month, and National Mobility Awareness Month – so we are celebrating all things Mobility for the Month of May! Whether you’re new to biking, walking, rolling, or riding the bus—or just excited to advocate for safer, more accessible streets—this Bingo board is your ticket to engaging with local […]
April Community Stroll: New Projects Coming to Traveler’s Rest
On April 2, 2025, Bike Walk Greenville held our first ever Community Stroll in the heart of Travelers Rest, bringing neighbors together to walk, learn, and discuss exciting new improvements for people who walk, bike, and roll. With support from local partners and community members, we explored current conditions on foot and facilitated an open […]
February 2025 Community Roll
At Bike Walk Greenville, we believe that our streets are for everyone—whether you walk, bike, or roll. That’s why, in collaboration with the Greenville Spinners, we organize monthly community rides, known as “Community Rolls,” designed to highlight safe, enjoyable routes that connect people to places in Greenville, SC. In February, in honor of Black History […]
January 2025 Community Ride: A Civil Rights History Tour of Greenville, SC
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 forward to bringing people out […]
After the Storm: Post Helene Cleanup of the Swamp Rabbit Trail
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 and arduous road to recovery, […]
Introducing our new Executive Director, Jasmine Vanadore!
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 have accomplished with a team […]
Trail Counter Celebration
On Saturday March 18, 2023 Bike Walk Greenville, the City of Traveler’s Rest, and The Community Tap celebrated the second successful installation of a trail display counter on the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail. Left to right are BWG board member Wayne Hollinger, Tim Simpson Jr who did the graphic design of the counter, BWG […]
2023 Trail Counter Prediction Contest
The Display Counter at Willard Street just north of Unity Park was made possible by our succesful fundraising in 2021 resulting in the donation of the counter to the City of Greenville. In 2022, the final count for 11 months after the installation was 656,467. 53.6% were people on bikes and 46.4% were people on […]
The Biker’s Map from 27 years ago
I recently found my copy of the Biker’s Map for Greenville County in the back of a dresser drawer. Published in 1995 it is a stark reminder of the many changes over these years. Technology changes, the building of the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail, and the dramatic growth of our County, all come to […]
The friendliest bike rider on the SRT and his trail etiquette tips
Shone Phelps has been waving at me and saying “Hello Sir!” for several years it seems. I was talking to our Board Chair Mary McGowan about him recently, and she said she sees him all the time, and wondered who he was. On my Sunday morning ride on March 6, 2022, after he waved and […]