![]() ![]() Greenville, SC 29601 Website: (864) 240-4528 modeled on the Red Sox’s Fenway Park and built using bricks salvaged from nearby mills. The Greenville Drive, the Class-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, plays more than 70 home games every year at the 5,700-seat 3 Fluor Field, 3Fluor Field Google Map: 945 S. ![]() A hiker navigates an exposed root system along the Swamp Rabbit Trail in Reedy Falls Park. Fluor Field is home to the Greenville Drive, a Class-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. The distinctive, 32-acre Falls Park on the Reedy in downtown Greenville, S.C., opened in 2003. Owner Jeff Little, who chops about 400 pounds of pulled pork every morning, might be the world’s most passionate proponent of low and slow smoking, which he’ll vividly and happily talk your ear off about until Nolan shuffles everyone back onto the bus. The third stop, Mike & Jeff’s BBQ, didn’t get SCBA’s highest honor, but its meat is just as juicy and flavorful as the 100-milers. All three are so unassuming (and often hidden behind stacks of hickory, which is used in the smokers) that you could easily miss them. Greenville SC 29609 (address for Mike & Jeff's, the tour's first stop) Website: (864) 567-3940- Henry’s Smokehouse and Bucky’s BBQ - are rated as no less than “100-mile barbeques” by the South Carolina Barbeque Association: worth driving 100 miles for. Two of the three joints on John Nolan’s 3.5-hour weekly 2 BBQ tour 2BBQ Tour Google Map: 2401 Old Buncombe Rd. Every year since, locals and visitors have found more ways to use the park, including food festivals, art shows, concerts, outdoor movies, races, the summerlong upstate Shakespeare in the Park festival and just quietly feeding pieces of leftover biscuits to a family of ducks. ![]() Falls Park was opened to the public the following year. Starting in the late 1970s, groups that had realized what downtown had lost began to reclaim the river and its banks until, finally, in 2002, the bridge was removed. Decades before the state built a four-lane concrete bridge directly in front of the falls (in 1960), mills had polluted the river that fed them. In downtown Greenville, 1 Falls Park on the Reedy 1Falls Park on the Reedy Google Map: 601 S. No wonder its branded social media hashtag is #yeahTHATGreenville.Īnywhere, 32-acres of manicured lawns and gardens, public performance spaces, private benches, sculptures, food trucks, trails and a 355-foot-long cantilevered pedestrian bridge with unobstructed views of 40-foot-tall waterfalls would be remarkable. While Greenville in the 1980s was not a best bet for family vacations, today it has a wide-ranging (and well-priced) food scene quirky boutiques outdoor cafes on bustling, tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly streets art galleries bike trails ample urban green space a public art collection with more than 70 sculptures and the fastest-growing population of any city in the state. (This happened before I had exited its airport.) In that greeting, and echoed in dozens of other interactions over the following days, were vibrancy and pride: The Greenvillians I met lived there because they loved the lifestyle the city gave them. Someone once recommended a frog jumping competition in Springfield, but no one ever recommended Greenville, in the Appalachian foothills about halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte.īut when I arrived last spring, the city of 70,000 had me at the first “Hey, y’all” I heard. On many trips there, we would take time to explore a new area recommended to us by a local. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, I spent most childhood school vacations and several weeks each summer visiting grandparents who lived elsewhere in the Palmetto State. This was a surprise, because I arrived in South Carolina with low expectations. I’ve never fallen in love with a place as quickly as I did with Greenville. ![]()
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