What do you think of the planned development along the lower Saluda?
As a fisherman, I have mixed feelings. I will definitely appreciate the reduced amounts of litter but I will not enjoy the bigger crowds.
I also don’t like the clearing of all the trees and underbrush on the banks. It takes away from the false sense of seclusion you can escape to down there. Sometimes you almost forget you are in a moderate sized city.
my wife’saunt ows a house on the other side of the river,past where they put the new access acouple of yearsback.i have caught some nice fish there.i hate to see this happen.maybe something will prevent it.
I’m one of the river revelers. I take my kids down there several times a year and call them my “rock hoppers”. It will be sad when they do this. They call it improvement, and maybe it will be, but it’s kind of like…for those of us who go regularly during the summer, killing a Columbia institution. I guess we’ll see what happens.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, has feathers like a duck, and swims like a duck, it just MIGHT be a duck.
I fish along the Cayce riverwalk all the time. They put the path in winding around the trees. Except for a handful of places you would never know it was there. I also have never been harassed by any hippies there. The whole zoo area is a mess now. So much litter it sickens me.
You may be right Steely. But I just get nervous when I think of that portion of the trail that goes up the side of the Broad River. There are giant lightpoles every few yards. The ■■■■ place looks like Finlay Park at night.
I guess so. there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. Hopefully they choose the right way. If they have it estimated at $5.8M it is probably already designed. At least a schematic design. I wonder if there is a way to view the plans.
Not a very clear plan at all. I hope they do not clear out all the trees. I sent them an email but it seems like they already know what they are going to do. Kind of backwards to ask for input after construction began. Looks like they are just going forward without considering the input of the public. Is seems like they hid this from the public to avoid the input and holdups.
seems to me that i saw an article stating that they want to take the saluda riverwalk to I20. the west bank above I20 is all pretty much privately owned, don’t know about the east side where the RR trax are. before the zoo built the botanical gardens i fished down there a good bit - there were some pretty seedy looking derilects that used to loiter down there trashin the place up. i won’t miss them.