Labor Day was the busiest day
The counter's single busiest day in three years was Labor Day 2025, at 2,857 people. All ten of the busiest days on record are Saturdays or holiday Mondays.
How Busy Is the Swamp Rabbit Trail in Travelers Rest?
Upstate Data Series · one counter, Travelers Rest · data from Bike Walk Greenville · updated annually
A counter sits in the Swamp Rabbit Trail in Travelers Rest, where the trail crosses South Main Street at Roe Road. It records every walker, runner, and cyclist who passes, around the clock. In 2025 it counted 417,703 of them. This page covers three years of that data: when the trail is busiest, the split between walkers and cyclists, and how a typical day breaks down.
A note on scale. Every number here comes from that one Travelers Rest counter. The Swamp Rabbit network runs close to 28 miles, and its busier stretches through downtown Greenville, Falls Park, and Unity Park almost certainly see far more traffic than this crossing. The City of Greenville runs its own counters but does not publish the data, so read these figures as one reliable point on a much larger trail, not a total for the whole thing.
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Data provided by Bike Walk Greenville.
Bike Walk Greenville
is the nonprofit that advocates for safe walking and biking across Greenville County. They shared
the Travelers Rest counter export this page is built on.
Busiest in late spring and summer
Total people counted per month. Hover or tap a month for exact numbers. 2023 coverage starts in March.
Traffic climbs from spring into summer and stays high through early fall. In every year on record the busiest month was August or September, and September was the single busiest month in both 2023 and 2025. December and January are the quietest. One shift worth noting: fall and winter 2025 ran ahead of the same months in 2024, so the slower season is filling in.
Walkers took the lead in 2025
People counted per month by mode, March 2023 to December 2025.
In 2023 this was mostly a cycling route, with cyclists ahead of walkers by about 38,000 over the ten months on record. That gap closed and then reversed. In 2024 cyclists still led by about 7,000, and in 2025 walkers finished ahead by more than 19,000 (218,571 on foot against 199,132 on wheels). Comparing the same March-to-December window, cycling held roughly flat across the three years while walking rose about a quarter.
By time of day
Average people passing per hour in 2025, weekdays vs weekends.
Weekends peak late morning, averaging about 181 people an hour around 11am, then ease off through the afternoon. Weekdays are lower and flatter: traffic builds through the morning, holds across midday and the afternoon, then drops off in the evening. There is no sharp commute peak in either direction.
Three things the data shows
Race day skews to walkers
The Swamp Rabbit Race half marathon and 5K started in Travelers Rest on February 24, 2024. The counter logged 1,925 people on foot against 596 on bikes, including 483 passings in one 15-minute window at 8:15am, the highest 15-minute count in the whole dataset.
Helene closed it for three days
The only days that recorded zero in 34 months were September 28 to 30, 2024, during Hurricane Helene's power outages across the Upstate.
The numbers, year by year
| Year | People counted | On foot | On wheels | Avg / day |
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The five biggest days
| # | Date | People |
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Every month, in a table
| Month | On foot | On wheels | Total |
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How this was measured
- The counter: an Eco-Counter sensor at the South Main Street and Roe Road crossing in Travelers Rest, on the Green Line section of the Swamp Rabbit Trail. It classifies each passing as a pedestrian or a cyclist and records totals in 15-minute buckets, around the clock.
- It counts passings, not people. Walk out and back past the counter and you register twice. This is standard for trail counters, so read the numbers as trips past one point rather than unique visitors.
- It is one point on a long trail. The Swamp Rabbit network runs about 28 miles. Anyone who joins and leaves without crossing this sensor is not in these numbers, and the downtown Greenville sections very likely carry more traffic than this crossing. The City of Greenville runs its own counters but does not publish the data. If that changes, we will add it here.
- Source. Bike Walk Greenville shared the counter's full 15-minute export, covering March 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. Our yearly totals match the City of Travelers Rest's published figures exactly (405,428 for 2024 and 417,703 for 2025).
- 2023 is a partial year. The export begins March 1, 2023, so the 2023 total of 339,303 covers ten months and is not directly comparable to a full year. Where we compare 2023 with later years, we use the same March-to-December window.
- Hurricane Helene is in the data. September 28 to 30, 2024 read zero during the storm's power outages. We left those days in the totals, matching the official figures, and flagged them rather than adjusting them.
- Small gaps. About 130 of the roughly 99,600 fifteen-minute readings (under 0.2%) came through blank or missing and were skipped. They do not change any figure on this page.
- Updated annually. This data runs through December 31, 2025. We will refresh the page when the next annual export is available.
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