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04.06.20

Connecting to nature at home

Are you looking for places to get outside while still keeping your distance from others? Maybe you need some hands-on activities that will keep the kids […]
04.02.20

Nature and your mental health

Research showing the connection between outdoor spaces and our mental health has multiplied over the past several decades. It’s something we all know but easily forget: […]
04.01.20

Wondering in the woods

Carolina Thread Trail’s Program Coordinator reflects on how his relationship to the outdoors has changed throughout his life, and how he shares his sense of wonder […]
03.20.20

Embrace the outdoors

“After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.” – G. M. Trevelyan We are in an extraordinary time, beyond what any of us has seen […]
01.06.20

Carolina Thread Trail awards over $246,000 to trail projects

In mid-December, the Carolina Thread Trail Governing Board awarded $246,666 in trail implementation grants for projects along the Thread Trail to the City of Gastonia, Town […]
12.31.19

Fall 2019 Newsletter

Check out our latest newsletter, below!  
08.14.19

Going the Distance

65-Mile Rocky River/Pee Dee River Blueways Open River to Recreation By Anna Gibson Great Blue Herons glide overhead; a cluster of deer swim soundlessly across the […]
08.09.19

The River & Us

Story and photos by Nancy Pierce I’m drawn back time and again to rivers because of this: they change with seasons and storms yet stay dependable […]
06.25.19

Weathering Extreme Storms

by Sam Kirk, Stewardship Associate Overall, Catawba Lands Conservancy and Carolina Thread Trail emerged post-Florence and Michael with only minor injuries. Wind damage was less than […]