Cleveland Park is Greenville, with paved/nature pathways, playgrounds, fitness stations, picnic shelters, and extensive green spaces, the City’s largest park covers 122 acres. Tennis, volleyball, baseball, and basketball are all available on the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail. The Rock Quarry Garden, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the downtown Greenville Zoo are all located inside the park. The Reedy River runs the length of Cleveland Park, providing a beautiful backdrop for all of the park’s activities. From the parking lot begins this paved, mostly-level, multi-purpose fitness route that goes through Cleveland Park along Richmond Creek and the Reedy River. This in-city route is ideal for a lunch break stroll or a family adventure. Fitness stations located throughout the path can give additional workout options for those who want it. You’ll circle the baseball, basketball, and tennis games area from Cleveirvine Avenue, going beneath birch, oak, elm, and other trees on a slope overlooking the park. You’ll stroll across creeks and over foot bridges until you reach McDaniel Avenue, where you may turn around or continue your walk on the connecting path that connects to magnificent Reedy River Falls Park and downtown Greenville’s historic district. Throughout the park, drinking fountains may be found along the walk. In the summer, insect repellent is recommended. Pets must be kept on a leash. With the help of Greenville Park Commission chairman John Alexander McPherson, prominent Greenvillean William Choice Cleveland donated a crescent-shaped 110 acres on the southeast side of town to be used as a park and playground, a recreational area he desired would complement his housing project, Cleveland Forest, and would include an equestrian park and paddocks where residents could board their horses on December 31, 1924. Two baseball fields, a horse ring, and a playground were built by the city of Greenville in 1925, and the park officially opened on January 1, 1926. The park was surveyed as 126 acres in 1928, under Mayor Richard Watson’s administration, when a $110,000 bond issue to create the park was authorized. The land around the river was swampy and prone to flooding, a problem that was partially addressed during the Great Depression when the Works Progress Administration channelized the riverbed, greatly improving drainage. The Greenville Garden Club started transforming a Civil War-era rock quarry into the Rock Quarry Garden in 1930. In 1932, the garden earned a Better Homes and Gardens award, but by the 1960s, it had become overgrown and neglected. In the 1980s, the garden was renovated again, and in the twenty-first century, the Rock Quarry Garden became a popular wedding and celebration site.

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