Our site can help you find out what fine rail-trails are already here in North Carolina and how NCRT is working to get more developed. That's why this site is important. You'll discover that surplus rail corridors are valuable public assets and well worth preserving.
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From time to time we like to pass on news of bicycle rides and other active events that may be of interest to the rail-trail community. The Gears and Cheers ride on May 22 offers 25, 40 and 62 mile rides through the rolling countryside of Guilford, Rockingham and Caswell Counties. The ride begins and ends at the winery located north of Elon on the Haw River Wine Trail and features historic Chinqua Penn Plantation on the 40-mi route. Proceeds from the event will go to the MS Society.
An official ribbon cutting of the first completed section (~4 miles) of the Downtown Greenway will be held at 4pm on March 24th. The ribbon will be cut near the intersection of Bragg and Eugene Street, approximately 1/8 mile west from South Eugene Street beside the two large trees at the midway point on the trail. Progress also continues on the Battleground Rail-Trail (BRT), a one mile extension of the Greenway which runs through the Battleground toward Downtown and will form the western leg of the Downtown Greenway. Please see our trails & projects page for background on the BRT.
{UPDATE: Please see the 3/25 Greensboro News-Record and the Downtown Greenway site for more on the project including links to surveys where you can provide input on plans for the project.}
{UPDATE: April 16th--As part of the expansion of the Greensboro greenways, the City has developed a new logo to properly recognize that portions of the City's rail-trail are on a corridor from the Atlantic and Yadkin railroad. The Downtown Greenway and Battleground Rail-Trail will be subsumed into the Atlantic & Yadkin Greenway. Click HERE to see the new logo.