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Upgrading Berkeley Drive brings the
Green Crescent Trail network to nearly
TRAILS rollout, these sections set up future
five miles of continuous trails. With each
connections to other key areas that are
next, like Nettles Park, Patrick Square and
the Grange.

ACROSS South Carolina Department of Transportation
added Berkeley Drive to its repaving schedule
for early 2026. This created an opportunity
to save time and resources by building
this segment of the Green Crescent Trail
in coordination with city work. The City of
BORDERS Clemson is leading planning and construction
costs, according to Friends of the Green
Crescent Trail.

Clemson University has its own campus
plans for bike/walkability, such as extending
Bowman Field across the road and having
By Lydia Cobb multi-use paths throughout campus.
The Green Crescent Trail builds into all
these access points, across campus and
The evolving Green Crescent Trail is a current really exciting,” said Chad Carson, founding Trail, which already links all the way to across municipalities.
and proposed 35-mile network of walking board member of Friends of the Green Clemson University.
and biking paths in the Clemson-Central- Crescent Trail. Watch as pathways and trails come into
Pendleton area. These improved pathways support a more sharper focus. Clemson will be heralded
Berkeley Drive Improvements active, healthy lifestyle by making walking, as a super-connected community. It’s also
Imagine a walkable and more cyclable Construction is underway on a brand-new jogging and biking safer and more appealing economically attractive for businesses,
Clemson area, with miles of safely marked and 1.1-mile section of the Green Crescent Trail for all ages. residents and Clemson students.
illuminated pathways that move us through along Berkeley Drive. The 10-foot-wide
urban spaces and connect us to farther cement path will run alongside the road,
places. The greatest cities in the fully separated by a raised curb. This will Sign up for Green Crescent Trail
world are multimodal and offer options like provide a safe, off-road space for walkers, NEWSLETTER UPDATES
what we are building here with the Green runners and cyclists.
Crescent Trail.
When finished in early 2026, the trail will greencrescenttrail.org. See you out and about!
“To have this network be coherent and safely connect more than 800 nearby homes
connecting the most important places in our to key destinations: Ashley Dearing Park,
community makes it feel like a better place to Clemson Elementary School, Clemson Park
live and visit, and we think this possibility is and the original phase of the Green Crescent

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