South Carolina’s newest park is still one of its best kept secrets, but we’re spilling the beans on this stunning new park located along the Swamp Rabbit Trail in downtown Greenville.

Greenville's new Cancer Survivors Park was unveiled recently, and we are quite simply speechless — and completely captivated by the park and all that it stands for.
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Nearly everyone has been touched in some way, either personally or through a loved one, by cancer. And this outdoor space, created by the Cancer Survivors Park Alliance, aims to provide a place of respite and rejuvenation, inspiration, education, hope, and celebration for anyone touched by cancer.
The park contains many spaces, but at the center is the Celebration of Life Pavilion.
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Its upward spire creates a not-so-subliminal and ever-present beacon of hope and represents one of the underlying healing elements of this fantastic new outdoor space in downtown Greenville.

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Beneath the spire, in the Celebration of Life Pavilion, is the Survivorship Education Center at trail level.
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The park's many gardens and spaces are designed to promote healing. The park itself crosses over the Reedy and has serene spaces on both sides of the river.
Among the most popular of the park's healing elements is the courageous Iron Lion nurturing a small child. The lion is slightly larger than life and is already among the most photographed elements in the new park.
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Cancer Survivors Park
The space now occupied by this fantastic new park was previously an overgrown 6.8 acres in which the Swamp Rabbit Trail passed through below the Chamber of Commerce building. However, thanks to the folks at the Cancer Survivors Park Alliance and the City of Greenville, it's now the newest and perhaps, one of the most meaningful of the parks in the Greenville Parks system.

Have you made your way over to Greenville to check out this lovely new outdoor space?

The Cancer Survivor’s Park is located at 52 Cleveland St., Greenville, SC 29601. Parking is provided at pavilion level on Cleveland Street. Trail-level access is found from hiking in via the Swamp Rabbit Trail. Learn more from the official website of the Cancer Survivors Park Alliance.

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