News & Events
May 16 - May 23, 2025
Strive Not to Drive is a regional effort to encourage people to use transit, bike, walk, or carpool to reach their destinations. Check out StriveBeyond.org for the full list of events happening around our region.
- May 16, 6:30PM at Trailside Brewing: Social Ride with Bike Walk HVL.
- May 17, 8AM - 12PM at 650 Maple St, Hendersonville: Get to know the Apple Country Bus system at the Hendersonville Farmer's Market.
- 9:30AM: Walk Audit 30-minute Training Session 1. Start location is the ACPT bus at the Farmer's Market. Participants earn a token to spend at the Farmer's Market.
- 11:30AM: Walk Audit 30-minute Training Session 2.
- May 21, 7PM at 201 S Main St: Ride of Silence.
- May 23, 9AM at Jackson Park House: Hike Henderson County, guided community hike in Jackson Park.
- Weeklong promotion with Downtown Hendersonville businesses: If you ride, walk, or take transit to a participating business, collect stamps to enter a raffle for Downtown Dollars prizes! Pick up and drop off booklets to participate at 201 S Main Street (the Visit Hendersonville building).
JANUARY 28, 2025
From BlueRidgeNow:
In the future, land next to Jackson Park could be home to a new stretch of the Oklawaha Greenway, winding through restored wetlands and forming part of a link to Blue Ridge Community College. Conserving Carolina recently purchased 23.6 acres south of the park, with frontage on two streams. The tract also contains three acres of wetlands, with potential to restore additional wetlands.
“Our goal is to extend the Oklawaha Greenway," said Rebekah Robinson, Conserving Carolina’s assistant director for programs. "That would not only provide community benefits for recreation, health and transportation, but it would allow us to create a path through an area that is ecologically rich and where wetland restoration could further expand and improve habitat for wildlife.”
Visit BlueRidgeNow for the full story.
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Department of Natural and Cultural Resources granted $4,250,000 to the Saluda Grade Trails Conservancy for the purchase of the Saluda Grade rail corridor in Henderson and Polk Counties and related assessment, due diligence, and transaction costs.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to move forward with a sports complex at Berkeley Park. At the start, the county plans three regulation-size soccer fields, a smaller youth field, and restrooms. As a condition for transferring the 39-acre site to the county, the School Board requested the county commission’s commitment to add a softball field and tennis courts for Hendersonville High School when the money comes available.
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