The new boardwalk at the Lake Conestee Nature Park is really more of a bog walk as it crosses swampy ground leading up to the waterfowl observation platform overlooking a shallow bay of the lake.

Welcome to Conestee Nature Preserve. ... It was an area behind the old Greenville Braves stadium that was a dumping ground for mills and other manufacturing plants. Today, ...

Earlier this month, Lake Conestee Nature Park was named 1st Runner Up for the national Phoenix Award. It’s presented by the Environmental Protection Agency to the project that stands out most ...

Lake Conestee is full of contaminants from the textile mills that boomed in the Upstate from the 1890s to the mid-20th century. ... enough to fill a football stadium 1.5 to 2 times.

Conestee Nature Preserve in Greenville County, South Carolina, closed indefinitely after Helene. Share Copy Link. Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Updated: 6:28 PM EDT Oct 9, 2024 ...

Lake Conestee is essentially a football-stadium-sized bathtub, whose lake-bottom sediments hold safe the byproducts of 90 years of industrial production upstream, said environmental scientist Dave ...