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An unprecedented number of businesses worked together to raise money in support of constructing the next section of greenway trail that will eventually connect the towns of Blowing Rock and Boone with a pedestrian and bicycle friendly alternate route that benefits residents, visitors, and businesses of Watauga County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1561125710791-DBD9OBOJTE9HD1FOHKEQ/Press+Conference.jpg News & Events - Town and Business Leaders provide MFG updates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539097817188-KDLZY840LVI7YE0YIZ0N/5af2023f878bf.image.jpg News & Events - Middle Fork Greenway plans massive fundraiser for July 100 businesses signed on to 'Round Up' campaign Approximately 50 people met at Appalachian Ski Mtn. on May 7 for an update on the progress of the Middle Fork Greenway Trail, a 6.5-mile paved path connecting Blowing Rock and Boone along the Middle Fork of the New River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1561125532660-GRLZDJUHAHBAI4IO7FEM/Wendy+BR+Presentation.jpg News & Events - Blowing Rock Section 1 Update https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539097907985-62DR04IGVOWN0QMQFTSP/Eva.jpg News & Events - Commissioners host hearing on Middle Fork Greenway grant A crowd of community members gathered Feb. 20 for a public hearing on the re-submission of a grant application to the state Parks and Recreation Trust Fund for the Middle Fork Greenway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539098011846-1MFHDI4UC8FU2POJWEFU/Bikers%2Bon%2Bsection%2B1.jpg News & Events - Federal Government Funds $2M for Town Section of Middle Fork Greenway in Blowing Rock It’s a happy day for those who are looking forward to walking or riding their bikes on a safe, 10-ft wide, asphalt path from Blowing Rock to Boone. The Town of Blowing Rock has been awarded $2 million dollars from the Eastern Federal Lands Access Program (EFLAP) to construct a 1.3 mile segment (Section One) of the Middle Fork Greenway (MFG) across town and national park service property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539098941961-RPQSTPQ7F6E7YMOGQ8P2/DSC_5010-2.jpg News & Events - Blowing Rock Chamber hands out $25k+ in Winterfest proceeds Regional meteorologists forecast overnight new snowfall on Tuesday, but those predictions proved a fitting prelude to Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce presenting $25,550 in checks to local non-profit agencies on Tuesday, all from the proceeds of January’s Winterfest 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539098101784-44V42P3SU8SCREJFS1BD/Middle-Fork-DOT-Bridge_24x36-1.jpg News & Events - Establishing Boone and Blowing Rock’s Gateway Greenway The 7-mile Middle Fork Greenway, connecting Boone to Blowing Rock, has gone from far-flung fantasy to a regional planning success story that promises to transform the region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539098279357-1HK32IRU9NDF9KXUKW0V/Map1-464x600.png News & Events - Round Up For The Middle Fork Greenway Hopes to Raise $100,000 for the Project If you haven’t heard of the plans to build a new section of Greenway between Boone and Blowing Rock, by the end of this July you probably will. That’s because this July a huge coalition of 118 local businesses in Boone and Blowing Rock have teamed up for the Round Up For The Middle Fork Greenway fundraiser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539101873628-6UF8362JD54P39I5QJPJ/placeholder.jpg News & Events - Town celebrates new greenway opening A warm spring day heralded the opening of the greenway that runs under U.S. Route 421 on April 11, celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by around 30 people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539098373949-CM8WYW7HJEJ01T7EZW6I/MFG.jpg News & Events - McCrory presents grant to Middle Fork Greenway Gov. Pat McCrory made an appearance in Blowing Rock Aug. 12 to present a $145,000 Department of Transportation statewide contingency fund grant to construct a bridge on the Middle Fork Greenway trail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539098516956-PL5H67RCOJ7TJHNBLLWO/MiddleForkGreenwayPictures.jpg News & Events - 100 LOCAL BUSINESSES PARTICIPATE IN MIDDLE FORK GREENWAY FUNDRAISER The Middle Fork Greenway has been a concept since the late 1990’s and over the past twenty years progress has been steadily moving forward – three county owned picnic parks have been secured and one mile of the trail is complete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539098575247-26WBW18N5P04LA04PPWH/54dcedcb6ef13.image.jpg News & Events - Coming soon to Blowing Rock: Middle Fork Greenway During a press conference at Appalachian Ski Mountain’s Snow Cloud Room Thursday, Middle Fork Greenway Executive Director Ann Browning announced that the next section of the pedestrian and cycling trail to be constructed will connect the Tanger Outlet Shoppes on the Parkway with the new health care facility Chestnut Ridge at Blowing Rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539099056324-6H7WRWIIZLO4CMSO902S/DSC_0616.jpg News & Events - Blowing Rock, Boone “Easter Saturday” Pledges Net $48k for Middle Fork Greenway Supporting the Middle Fork Greenway project has become near dear to the heart of Brad Moretz, President of Appalachian Ski Mountain, so he decided to do something about it: defy the warming weather gods and keep the ski slopes open one more Saturday. The he and sister Brenda Speckmann — with the help of 55 businesses and seven individuals — took the idea to another level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539101921540-CJ8LGZ9GZ5XERYHYTWD0/AppSki-greenway-poster-10a1-600x904.jpg News & Events - Extended Season & Easter Ski Weekend to benefit the Middle Fork Greenway, April 4 & 5 Appalachian Ski Mtn. is excited to announce plans for a special “Easter Ski Weekend” featuring 50% discounted ski tickets, and custom packages with local Area Attractions & Lodging. All ski ticket sales on Saturday will be donated to the Middle Fork Greenway Initiative, a developing 6.5 mile pedestrian and cycling trail connecting Blowing Rock and Boone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539101548724-51HFD7UDXMNVKIAEQQHY/ribbon-cutting.jpg News & Events - Middle Fork Greenway Ribbon Cutting Celebration The Middle Fork Greenway is a 6.9 mile proposed trail that will connect Boone and Blowing Rock, NC along the Middle Fork of the New River and Hwy. 321. The paved, 10 foot wide trail, will allow pedestrians and cyclists to travel safely between the two mountain towns. There will be four pocket parks along the trail which will have limited parking. The time frame for the project is 6 years and the cost estimate is $12 million. The first section of the greenway opened last year in front of Tweetsie Railroad Theme Park. A ribbon cutting celebration similar to the one today was held in the Tweetsie parking lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539099000475-HY7FFFMVZ0ZQ0VS2JPZR/ASC_8221.jpg News & Events - Middle Fork Greenway Opens New Section Bit by bit, the long envisioned Middle Fork Greenway is becoming a reality. On Wednesday, the Middle Fork task force opened a new stretch between Tweetsie Railroad and the U.S. 321 culverts near Mystery Hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1539099123045-P8HPGF9QU10PC6RMM225/DSC_1885.jpg News & Events - The Hand of the Community at Work in Blowing Rock & High Country for Middle Fork Greenway After more than a decade of planning, negotiating and cajoling, the Middle Fork Greenway project may finally have the kind of visible community support required to make it a reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/aa016890-4051-4cee-8991-6bbd0ec97e70/Public+Meeting+Flyer_small.jpg News & Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.middleforkgreenway.org/directions daily 0.75 2022-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1470187729476-NQP3WICY76IX13JXFD60/sterling-creek-park-middle-fork-greenway Directions Sterling Creek Park is located between the Middle Fork Greenway and Middle Fork New River parallel to Hwy 321. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/93f2050a-d64d-4fc5-989e-a961f792162c/sterling.jpg Directions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1477589046394-JX7VR2XGU4RH5QWP1KAE/image-asset.jpeg Directions Middle Fork of the South Fork New River at Sterling Creek Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/da87c046-479b-4066-b4d4-7520b34eb71d/trailhead.JPG Directions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/07809f10-22ad-48e3-ae00-52384a4c1a2c/321a.jpg Directions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1470187754388-JIUVXK1GKCYNJ8PG4ZHA/How+to+get+to+Sterling+Park-min.JPG Directions To access Sterling Creek Park - turn onto Whitener Mountain Road and you'll see a gravel parking area on right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/20e874ee-1ade-494f-8f34-4a50895af790/321.jpg Directions - 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future access site of the river on the Middle Fork Greenway! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1477944230764-OP9VXRW1C3HHEWZB6ALO/image-asset.jpeg FAQ's Folks enjoying the shade on the Middle Fork Greenway in front of Riverside log cabins at Mystery Hill. https://www.middleforkgreenway.org/archived-newsletters daily 0.75 2017-12-19 https://www.middleforkgreenway.org/stories-from-the-river daily 0.75 2017-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1498597526945-6VOW2OVCV7E4MNWPVTQ1/goldmine+branch+park.jpg Stories from the River Payne Branch Park Kiosk is still under construction. Check back soon for updated content. Payne Branch Park was dedicated on Oct. 2, 2005, as the first park along the route of the Middle Fork Greenway. With Appalachian State University Chancellor Kenneth Peacock and former Chancellor Francis Borkowski in attendance, and with Watauga County Commissioners Keith Honeycutt and Billy Ralph Winkler, and about 50 members of the community, we celebrated a new chapter in the river’s life. Musicians played and members of the Shore, Cook and Tate Families, heirs of the original owners, shared photos and stories of growing up along the lake that once covered the land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1495655981539-C449FXLWOZ6TWVDEPXKL/image-asset.png Stories from the River https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1498598251823-60EEZIU0DDKYH0CJ9HPY/image-asset.jpeg Stories from the River Sterling Creek Park Kiosk is still under construction. Check back soon for updated content. Many trees grow in this park–white pine, red maple, sugar maple, yellow birch, rhododendron, northern red oak, black cherry, hemlock, black locust, ash, American beech, hickory, Fraser fir, red spruce, and most recently, a Newtown Albemarle Pippin apple tree, planted by Blue Ridge Gardening Club for Arbor Day, 2017. Each tree here has its own story but we’ve decided to build this history on the one we believe is the oldest: the Northern Red Oak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1498600344784-CIQIGDSNN54YQ64E3SXF/Picking+blackberries.jpg Stories from the River Picking Blackberries - Local Artist Anne Burgess highlights some of the wonderful activities that can take place on a Greenway! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5770048037c581ea32ac43c7/1498597259426-JVI1DKL08B1FHADQ7PT5/Goldmine+branch+park.jpg Stories from the River Goldmine Branch Park Kiosk is under construction. Please check back soon for updated content. “Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly,” John Fowles wrote. “Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.” Surely no trees ever exemplified these words more joyfully than the pair of conjoined red maples (acer rubrum) exuberantly throwing their arms in the air as they grip the bank with their feet. Weathering high water, wind and drought, they gradually became fused (inosculated) and the memories of one became the memories of them both. They groaned as one when the earth’s deep currents signaled that entire nearby ancient forests were being clearcut in the first two decades of the Twentieth Century.