CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Throughout the year, the Highlands Plateau Greenway offers a variety of programs related to the Greenway. Members, volunteers, and visitors are invited to the following events in 2012:
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CALENDAR OF EVENTSThroughout the year, the Highlands Plateau Greenway offers a variety of programs related to the Greenway. Members, volunteers, and visitors are invited to the following events in 2012: |
| Greenway Trail Building on the Big Bear Pen Trail and the Recreation Park Trail |
Third Saturday of each month.
Please sign up before each work trip. Meet at the Highlands Recreation Park, Civic Center building. We will continue work on the Greenway Trail. Please contact Ran Shaffner at 828-526-5622 or email him at highlandsgreenway@nctv.com to sign up. |
Third Saturdays from January through December at 9:00 a.m. |
| Greenway Trail Hike from Mirror Lake to Sunset Rock $25 cost, includes lunch and one-year individual membership. Click here to purchase tickets online by check, PayPal, debit or credit card. |
Meet at Rec Park lower parking lot off Foreman Road to be shuttled to the trail head. Lunch provided by Cullasaja Women's Outreach. |
Saturday, June 9 at 9:00 a.m. |
| ANNUAL MEETING | Highlands Recreation Park on North 4th Street |
Saturday, June 16 12:00 noon |
| Greenway Trail Building on the Big Bear Pen Trail |
Third Saturday of each month.
Please sign up before each work trip. Meet at the Highlands Recreation Park, Civic Center building. We will continue work on the Recreation Park Trail. Please contact Hillrie Quin at 526-2385 or email him at hmquin@frontier.com to sign up. |
Third Saturdays from January through December at 9:00 a.m. |
| Kelsey Trail Hike from Whiteside Mountain to 5th Street |
Meet at 5th and Pine streets to be shuttled to trail head Bag lunch provided at end of hike around noon. |
Saturday, May 14 between 7:00-8:00 a.m. |
| ANNUAL MEETING | Highlands Recreation Park on North 4th Street |
Saturday, June 11 5:00 p.m. |
| Greenway Trail Building on the Big Bear Pen Trail |
Third Saturday of each month.
Please sign up before each work trip if at all possible. Meet at the Highlands Recreation Park, Civic Center building, at 9:00 a.m. We will continue work on the Big Bear Pen Trail. Please contact Hillrie Quin at 526-2385 or email him at hmquin@frontier.com to sign up. |
Third Saturdays from January through December |
| ANNUAL MEETING | Highlands Recreation Park on North 4th Street |
Saturday, June 13 5:00 p.m. |
| Greenway Trail Building on the Recreation Park Loop Trail |
Eight volunteers, guided by Fred Lashley, used a high line to transport and install 300-400 pound stone steps along a steep part of the Rec Park loop trail. |
January 21 and 22 |
| Work Trips on the Greenway Trail | The Recreation Park Loop Trail and Rhododendron Park Trail on Big Bear Pen Mountain.
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January through July |
| Kelsey Trail Hike from 5th Street to Whiteside Mountain |
Part of the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust's centennial celebration |
May 9 |
| ANNUAL MEETING | Highlands Recreation Park on North 4th Street |
June 13 |
| Completion of the Rec Park Loop Trail | We finished work on the Loop Trail in the Rec Park, and a new bridge was installed over Mill Creek. |
August through September |
| Dedication Ceremony | Approximately 50 people attended the dedication of the Rec Park Loop Trail and the new Mill Creek Bridge, officiated by Mayor Don Mullen. |
October 6 |
| Work on the Big Bear Pen Trail | With the help of Fred Lashley and crew, the Big Bear Pen Trail was cleared, cribbed, and graveled from the upper switchback of Big Bear Pen Road to the power line, including a spur to below the lower switchback of Big Bear Pen Road. |
October through December |
| ANNUAL MEETING | Highlands Recreation Park on North 4th Street |
June 28 |
| Greenway Trail Building on the Recreation Park Trail |
We had 16 volunteers turn out for our first work trip. We created about 200 feet of new trail north of Mill Creek near the bridge. |
September 6 |
| Greenway Stone Step Construction on the Recreation Park Trail |
We had 10 volunteers turn out for our September work trip. We created a new trail to the bench on the south bank of Mill Creek near the bridge and built rock steps ascending from the bridge toward the road. |
September 20 |
| Check Steps, Rock Cribbing, and Trail Construction on the Recreation Park Trail |
We had a great turnout for our October work trip. Ten adults volunteered and the Eckerd Camp had 11 campers and two adults participating. We added about 150 feet of new trail and rehabilitated a section of washed-out trail with rock and earth steps in the Rec Park. |
October 25 |
| Construction on the Recreation Park Trail | We continued our work in the Rec Park near the Mill Creek Bridge and on the upper loop trail. |
Saturdays, November & December, and December 31 |
New Equipment: The Town of Highlands has purchased a Canycom tracked wheelbarrow and a Yanmar mini-excavator for use by the Highlands Plateau Greenway. Several greenway members have already received their training and have been using the equipment as part of our trail construction work on the Recreation Park Trail.