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 […]
Dangerous by Design in Greenville County
Socioeconomic and Infrastructure Disparity between Poor and Wealthy Neighborhoods in Greenville, SC a video by Furman University Senior Loise Aleria As an intern with Bike Walk Greenville for the Fall 2021 semester I investigated the deaths along major roads that have been designed only to move motor vehicles as fast as possible, with little […]
December 2021 Update
Since 2013, Bike Walk Greenville has been advocating for safer infrastructure for people on foot and on bikes. Read on to learn more about our past successes and future projects! To support our work, please consider making a tax deductible end of year donation. We appreciate your support! Our first achievement was raising funds for the […]