County, United Way Grant Could Lead to Belton/Anderson Trail

Greg Wilson/Anderson Observer

Anderson County Council and the United Way of Anderson are looking at plans that could create a trail system that connects the City of Anderson and Belton. 

The trail would begin near North Main Street in Belton and arrive in Anderson at North Gossett Street.

Funded by a $252,000 grant, the funds will be used to assess the feasibility of a Anderson Area Multi-Purpose Trail System, and includes the cost of potential right of ways the county would need to secure along the old Piedmont and Northern, or Poor & Needy, railroad bed that stretches between the two cities. 

The funding begins in this month and will continue throughout 2023. Any funds left over from the study and properties need will be used to begin work on the trail.

Anderson County has been looking at the possibility of a cross county trail which would begin in Belton and stretch across connecting the trails in and around the City of Anderson with Pendleton and Clemson. The new venture is the first step in that process.

Anderson County has almost completed the multi-purpose track/trail connecting the AnMed walking track on S.C. 81 North with the civic center. The City of Anderson has also finished the second phase of Linley Park and hopes to connect thier tracks with each other and those of the county in the months ahead.