Green Means Healthy

Most health issues are preventable through exercise, proper diet and healthy stress relief. Great Rivers Greenway is championing healthy outdoor activity through monthly events designed to get people onto the greenways. Grant’s Trail, part of the Gravois Greenway, is now heavily used for everything from family exercise to marathon training. Other trails appear on running and cycling club websites and they are well-known throughout the community.

Greenways are also a comfortable home for community gardens and farmers’ markets. Beginning in 2011, Great Rivers Greenway welcomes community gardens to the St. Vincent Greenway. As the greenway network grows, so will efforts to engage residents and organizations to promote and sustain local greenways through a variety of activities and events. Great Rivers Greenway, in partnership with educators, employers and health-related organizations, will continue to promote the healthy aspects of greenways for years to come.