Boise greenbelt

A local grassroots effort to clean up the waterway and create public access to the river corridor began to take hold.

This vision caught on, and by 1967 three small parcels of land were donated to the city to launch the "green belt."

In 1968, with public interest and support growing, the first Greenbelt Plan and Guidelines were adopted by the Board of Parks Commissioners.

The City of Boise continued to slowly piece together a patchwork of land along the corridor using several methods of acquisition including purchase, exchange, leasing and receiving donations of property by individuals, civic groups and corporations.

Approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Veterans Memorial Parkway the north bank trail ends.

Also on the north bank, approximately 1/4 mile west of Glenwood Bridge the greenbelt becomes a bicycle dismount zone at the Riverside Village residential development.

The purpose of the DOTS is to aid people in locating their position on the greenbelt relative to the downtown Boise central point.

A stretch of greenbelt west of Glenwood Street in Garden City on the north side has been closed in varying degrees over the last three decades.

The former Idaho state land was offered on condition that "...they shall construct certain improvements on the State land consisting of a bike path, lakes, pedestrian bridges (where the latter are required to assure a continuous linkage of greenbelt next to the Boise River for the length of the Riverside Village project)...", but these terms have never been met.