Bolin Creek
My husband and I take turns running with our dogs in the woods on Seawell School Road, either on the Bolin Creek side or the Carolina North side. Yesterday we noticed that NO TRESPASSING signs have appeard on the Bolin Creek side. We requested more information via the contact information on the signs, and here is what we found out:
From BolinCreek.org:
The 5th
Annual Bolin Creek Festival will be from 11am-5pm, October 4th at
Umstead Park in Chapel Hill. Featuring local artist Dale Morgan, music
by Club Boheme, Skeedaddle, Project Mastana—passionate Bollywood dance
music, and rhythm circles by the Music Explorium. Special activities
for children will include the introduction to stream critters and the
popular Enviroscape by the Chapel Hill Stormwater Office.
Date:
Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 7:00am to 1:00pm
Location:
Umstead Park, Chapel Hill
You may remember last fall when I moved about 1/2 a mile north from my old home downtown and suddenly found myself feeling like I was miles away from town. For the thousand or so people like me who live near Umstead Drive, Village Drive, and Estes Drive Extension, the only way to walk downtown involves a 2-mile hike up MLK Boulevard or a cut through the woods around Estes Park Apartments to Pleasant Drive in Carrboro.
Well, the Town of Chapel Hill was two steps ahead of me and was already planning an extension of the Bolin Creek Greenway that would connect Umstead Park and our neighborhood to Northside (which is just across the creek), the future Carolina North campus, and MLK Blvd. Importantly, this extension will also connect my old neighbors in Northside to University Mall (the Greenway's eastern terminus).
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