RALEIGH, NC – There was nothing good about the COVID pandemic. However, the need to do something, to get outside, or to just have a break from it all, sent some of us to our greenways, parks, and bike trails — those well-tended places that we’d perhaps taken for granted in a world before social distancing and mask wearing.

The pandemic reminded us how valuable parks, greenways, and recreation programs are for our quality of life.

Now, with a vote for the Raleigh parks bond in November, we have a chance to build on what is there by creating new spaces and trails and entire new parks where we need them…[READ MORE]