For a long time, the Old Forest has felt like one of Memphis’ best-kept secrets: a place to immerse yourself in nature, teach your kids how to ride their bikes, or enter a race supporting your favorite cause. But as more and more people flock
“KEEP OUT.” The iron bars that greet visitors at three entrances to the Old Forest are anything but welcoming. Designed to prohibit vehicles from entering the State Natural Area, the gates accomplish something unintended as well: discouraging pedestrians and cyclists from enjoying the forest trails.
Missed our earlier installments? Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 Try as it might, the mud couldn’t stop Bike Gate. Set it back a day, sure. Attempt to swallow a crane whole…why not? But in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, February
Missed our earlier installments? Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 T-minus four days until Bike Gate is complete! Now that we’re in the home stretch, if you’ve been driving down East Parkway this week, you’ve probably noticed the splashes of color in
Missed our earlier installments? Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 The first piece of Bike Gate is officially in the ground. This afternoon, crews from Wagner General Contractors and Tylur French’s Youngblood Studio are installing the two 13-foot steel towers that will form
There’s a new feature coming to Rainbow Lake Playground…and we don’t mind saying it’s going to be pretty awesome. Artist Tylur French, who’s also building our Bike Gate sculpture, is putting together a new musical sculpture and pebble processor. The original sculpture we installed wasn’t
Missed our earlier installments? Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 Things are moving quickly with the Conservancy’s Bike Gate project…and they’re getting a lot more colorful, too! Artist Tylur French and several volunteers have started painting the components of the
Missed our earlier installments? Catch Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. Bike Gate continues to roll along, with the shape of the sculpture changing every day as new elements are added. “Originally, we thought we’d need about 200 bikes,” says artist Tylur
Missed our earlier installments? Catch Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Bike Gate is getting 33% more awesome. As Tylur French has continued working on the new bike sculpture that will welcome cyclists and pedestrians into Overton Park, he realized the arch could benefit
Follow along as Overton Park Conservancy and our community partners work to build a bicycle-pedestrian connection at the Sam Cooper/East Parkway entrance to the park. Part 1 is here. When we last checked in with Tylur French, he was collecting bikes for the sculpture that
