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The fundamentals for a great trail experience is here it just needs more investment in signage to bring it to its full potential. I rode 14 miles of the Swamp Rabbit Trail starting in Traveler's Rest and ending at the trail's end near Greenville Tech. Kudos to Prisma Health for financing and developing this trail and to Greenville and Travelers Rest for maintaining this exceptional trail! This is certainly a destination trail not to be missed. Lots of extremely friendly locals, tourists, and families were enjoying the falls, gardens, and trails. Even though we were in a downtown area, we felt totally safe. It was worth it for more river, art, and beautiful landscape views. We continued on for a couple more miles as far as the zoo. Greenville has done a superb job around the falls with exquisite architecture, art installations, and landscaping to enhance the enjoyment of the Reedy Falls area. The highlight for me was reaching downtown Greenville and experiencing the Reedy River and its falls area. The trail was fairly flat, smooth, and being taken advantage of by locals out for their early morning walks and jogs. With the thermometer reading forty-two degrees at the outset of our early morning ride in a late March, these two Southern Californians braved the cold to enjoy the beautiful ride through the woods toward Greenville. This was a great location not only for jumping on the trail and pedaling the ten miles to Greenville, but to also take advantage of the charming Main Street of Travelers Rest.

We had optimistic expectations for this highly regarded trail, and we were not let down! We stayed in a Hampton Inn directly across the trail in Travelers Rest. In our attempt to ride our bikes in all fifty states, we decided on the Swamp Rabbit for our South Carolina achievement. Greenville County Parks, Recreation & Tourism.Visit the Greenlink website to plan your trip. The City of Greenville's public transit system offers access to the trail via bus and trolley. There are also several places to park in Lake Conestee Nature Park to access the disconnected southern segment of the trail. View the TrailLink map for all options and detailed directions. Main St.) and Cleveland Park (150 Cleveland Park Dr.) in Greenville. Parking is available at a number of locations along the trail with several options at the parks along the route, including Gateway Park (115 Henderson Dr.) and Trailblazer Park (235 Wilhelm Winter St.) in Travelers Rest, and Falls Park (601 S. Further expansions to connect to these segments and expand the trail within Greenville are in the works. An additional one-mile segment of disconnected trail has been completed along Main Street in the town of Simpsonville, providing a short-but-sweet rail-with-trail pathway for local cyclists and pedestrians. Although less than a mile long, it travels by a pond and is quite picturesque. More recently, a disconnected section of the Swamp Rabbit Trail opened in the city of Fountain Inn, which lies southeast of the nature park. Views of the Reedy River are plentiful throughout the trail.Īfter a short gap of a few miles, the trail picks up again at I-85 and winds through Lake Conestee Nature Park, which offers 400 acres of beautiful forest, wetlands, and wildlife habitat. Amenities along the trail include lighting, picnic areas, benches, water fountains, restrooms, signage and bicycle racks. Varying from 8 to 12 feet wide, the trail features a paved surface for bicycles, skaters and walkers, with an additional rubberized surface for runners. Beginning in the north at Tate Road in Travelers Rest, the trail passes the North Greenville Medical Campus and the Falls Park on the Reedy as it continues through the community's downtown.įollowing the Reedy River, the trail heads south through the park-like setting of the Furman University campus and continues into downtown Greenville, ending at Greenville Tech on Cleveland Street.

The Greenville Health System, a local healthcare provider, generously provided $1 million to help develop and publicize the trail. The 23-mile Prisma Health (formerly Greenville Health System) Swamp Rabbit Trail links the cities of Travelers Rest and Greenville in upstate South Carolina via a former railroad corridor.

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