Peachtree Creek Greenway, First Mile Open

BROOKHAVEN, GA — Community members can now enjoy a portion of the Peachtree Creek Greenway. The first mile of the multi-purpose trail opened to the public Thursday, reports the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

Still a work in progress, but the path stretches from North Druid Hills Road to Briarwood Road, along the North Fork Peachtree Creek.

Groundbreaking for the first phase of the $10 million project kicked off last December. The path will include a series of paved multi-purpose and promenade trails. When Phase I and II are completed, the Brookhaven segment will connect southward toward PATH400, the South Fork Conservancy Trails and the Atlanta BeltLine.

Phase I consists of 1.27 miles of Brookhaven's three-phase 2.9-mile portion of the initiative.

Phase III of the project will extend north, pass Brookhaven to Mercer University in unincorporated DeKalb County. The completed project will stretch 12.3 miles, from Doraville to the Atlanta BeltLine. Local municipalities that the trail passes through such as Chamblee and Doraville will be responsible for funding and building their respective portions of the Greenway.

The vision for the Peachtree Creek Greenway goes back almost two decades to its first reference in a PATH Foundation study. The City of Brookhaven was created in 2012.
Local community activist Betsy Eggers and others proposed to the new city's leaders the idea for a bicycle path and a linear park along Peachtree Creek.

This proposal was followed by months of discussion, master planning, creation of the Peachtree Creek Greenway, Inc., and taking the necessary steps to move the idea along the legislative and funding process at all levels.