Projects

In partnership with the Foothills and Bartram Trail Conservancies, UGATA has laid out some epic thru-hiking opportunities connecting the Foothills of South Carolina to the Appalachian mountains for Georgia, North Carolina, and beyond!

The Lakeside Park trail project is a huge win for the Upstate, especially for the underserved neighborhood where it is located. 

UGATA partnered with the City of Greenville and Bike Walk Greenville to create a durable connection from the Nicholtown Community to the Swamp Rabbit trail near Cleveland Park.

UGATA, in partnership with Greenville County Rec, constructed a ~800 linear foot “single track sidewalk” to parallel the Green Line of the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail. This is the first section of the Rad Rabbit Trail which UGATA hopes will parallel many portions of the Swamp Rabbit.

In partnership with the Foothills Trail Conservancy (FTC), UGATA staff and the Upstate Trail Corps are working to make improvements to the iconic Foothills Trail

In partnership with Spartanburg County and the Spartanburg Area Conservancy (SPACE), UGATA recently constructed a new 0.5-mile nature trail at Glendale Shoals

UGATA worked with several private and public land owners to secure access to 1.4 miles of land to build a paved greenway that will connect the Village of West Greenville to Anderson Road. We are working with SeamonWhiteside to create the initial design for this Greenway.

UGATA, in partnership with Greenville County Rec, constructed a ~800 linear foot “single track sidewalk” to parallel the Green Line of the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail. This is the first section of the Rad Rabbit Trail which UGATA hopes will parallel many portions of the Swamp Rabbit.

UGATA recently partnered with Anderson County to construct a 0.5-mile trail network overlooking the Saluda River in Piedmont.

UGATA partnered with the City of Greenville to replace the large trail bridge on Fernwood Nature Trail in Cleveland Park.

UGATA is working with Seamon Whiteside Engineering to design and permit a 3.5 mile Multi-use trail to connect Heritage Park to the existing Swamp Rabbit Trail in Fountain Inn

The Upstate Trail Corps is partnering with the Palmetto Conservation Foundation to complete the new 12-mile Gap Creek Passage of the Palmetto Trail.

Upstate Trail Corps is partnering with Pickens County Parks, Recreation, & Tourism to complete a 3-mile loop trail at Mile Creek Park.

UGATA’s Upstate Trail Corps is partnering with the City of Greer’s Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism to build a ~1 mile nature trail inside Country Club Road Park.

UGATA’s Upstate Trail Corps partnered with South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism to rebuild a deteriorated portion of this scenic trail in Caesar’s Head State Park.

UGATA is partnering with Greenville Rec to bring a new trail to David Jackson Park!

Our founding project, the one that birthed UGATA!

The Lakeside Park trail project is a huge win for the Upstate, especially for the underserved neighborhood where it is located. 

UGATA is working to build a 2.1 mile greenway connector from TR High School to the George I. Theisen Family YMCA

UGATA created a comprehensive, interactive map of all the high quality trails and greenways in the Upstate and show the areas where our network can be improved and expanded. Please take a look, and if you have any suggestions or edits please reach out to Sam.

UGATA hosts an AmeriCorps team to build and maintain natural surface trails across the Upstate.

With the generous help of Carli’s Legacy, UGATA added green paint to the existing Sulphur Springs crosswalk

The Lakeside Trail Network has a brand new Trailhead to welcome you to the trails and let you know how we built them.

UGATA assisted our partner the City of Greenville in bringing the Swamp Rabbit Trail in the city limits into compliance with best practices under the Federal Highway Administration.

UGATA has improved this intersection by adding green paint!

There is an exciting network of soft-surface trails next to the Greenville Zoo in Cleveland Park.  But by 2018, the trails had become unusable due to overgrown vegetation and many fallen trees.