Hendersonville Looks Ahead With Bike Hendo Plan |
A new city bicycle plan invites residents to help shape safer, easier connections for riding, rolling, commuting, and exploring Hendersonville. |
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Hendersonville is asking residents to help shape the future of biking, rolling, and getting around town without always relying on a car.
The City of Hendersonville has launched Bike Hendo, a new bicycle network plan designed to make the city safer, more connected, and more bike-friendly for people who ride for transportation, recreation, errands, school trips, downtown visits, and everyday movement. The plan will update the city’s previous bicycle plan adopted in 2017 and is expected to be completed in summer or fall 2027.
For a growing mountain city like Hendersonville, the plan is about more than bike lanes. It is a quality-of-life project. Better bicycle connections can help families reach parks and greenways, give commuters more options, make downtown easier to access, and support outdoor-minded residents who already see biking as part of local life.
The city says Bike Hendo will help guide future strategies and projects, including improvements that could make Hendersonville safer and more connected for people who bike or roll. The plan is also expected to build on local momentum from projects such as the Ecusta Trail, which has already become a major conversation point for recreation, mobility, and downtown access in Henderson County.
Community input is a major part of the process. Hendersonville is inviting anyone who lives, works, visits, bikes, or rolls in the city to share where they currently ride, where they would like to ride, and what makes biking difficult. A drop-in community meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 25, 2026, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Trailside Brewing, 873 Lenox Park Drive.
Once adopted, the Bike Hendo plan can be used by the city and the North Carolina Department of Transportation to guide future projects, policy decisions, programs, events, and funding opportunities. The project is made possible through a grant from the NCDOT Integrated Mobility Division, with support from the City of Hendersonville.
For 828 Daily readers, this is one of those local planning efforts worth watching early. The routes, gaps, safety concerns, and priorities residents point out now could influence how Hendersonville grows as a more walkable, bikeable, and connected city in the years ahead. |