East Coast Greenway River Relay Arriving in Portsmouth Friday, September 1st

PORTSMOUTH, NH – This year the East Coast Greenway (ECG) Alliance, the country’s longest biking and walking route, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Portsmouth will be welcoming an East Coast River Relay team on Friday morning in Prescott Park to help commemorate this occasion and the Greenway’s efforts in connecting 15 states, 450 cities and towns, and 3,000 miles of people-powered trails from Maine to Florida. 

For ten weeks, the traveling River Relay has been visiting communities along the ECG route and encouraging everyone to celebrate rivers, active living, and local culture. The Portsmouth Planning Department has been working with neighboring communities to develop the New Hampshire portion of the ECG, the New Hampshire Seacoast Greenway, which currently follows an on-road route but is planned to be a 17-mile off-road, multi-use trail, following abandoned rail corridors through eight communities from Portsmouth to Seabrook.

On Friday, September 1st at 8:00 a.m., Governor Chris Sununu will welcome attendees at Prescott Park along with Portsmouth City Councilor Brad Lown and Executive Director of the East Coast Greenway Alliance Dennis Markatos-Soriano. Also speaking will be representatives from two of the event’s local sponsors: Molly Bolster from the Gundalow Company and Cindy Carroll from Unitil. After the speaking portion of the event, there will be a meet-and-greet followed by a 7.5-mile on-road bike ride from Prescott Park in Portsmouth to the New Hampshire Seacoast Science Center in Rye. On this day, bikers can use a one-day promo code, “riverrelay,” which will allow a waiver of a monthly Zagster bike share membership fee.

For more information, please visit:

• https://www.cityofportsmouth.com/planportsmouth/nh-seacoast-greenway;
• https://www.greenway.org/;
• https://bike.zagster.com/portsmouthnh/; and
• https://www.facebook.com/nhseacoastgreenway.