Join us for a special edition of the Sunday Slow Ride with bike leaders Pamela Murray and Katie Zager, as the group explores the Blue Line and the Blue Line Extension. We will ride 10-15 miles at an easy pace with several stops to talk about the development that has occurred along the light rail corridor. Participants must bring their own bike and helmet.

Walk with Retro Charlotte blogger and Charlotte Observer librarian Maria David, heading west on West Trade Street and return to the starting point. Old photos from the 1920s-1930s will compare then and now at sites such as the federal courthouse, now-demolished hotels, bus stations, with a few memories of the seedier side of the city.

Enjoy a short stroll with landscape architect Beth Poovey of LandDesign and Gwen Cook of Mecklenburg County Parks & Recreation, who led in the creation and design of this marvelous space. Explore ecology, design and history … and maybe even glimpse a blue heron along the waterway.

Join Revolution Park community leader John Howard for a walking tour highlighting 3 west side neighborhoods and the contiguous system of public spaces linked by bike routes and a greenway that joins them. Over the years, the system was developed by different groups including Charlotte DOT and Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation. The walk will begin at Arbor Glen Recreation Center and end at Revolution Park Sports Academy. It will highlight community landmarks such as a community garden, influential community members, and discuss how the original community was developed from the 1920s through the 1960s.

As the opening of the LYNX Blue Line Extension (BLE) approaches, University City will be shaped by the new development along the BLE. Join us as we walk from Boardwalk Billy's, in the Shoppes at University Place, and highlight BLE improvements, strategies to modernize the suburban shopping centers adjacent to the J.W. Clay Station and discuss how UNC Charlotte will become more connected to surrounding shops, restaurants and offices.

Visit a Nepali grocery, enjoy an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, eat a Palestinian feast and finish with Syrian pastries—All in a single east Charlotte spot. Hosted by Charlotte Observer “Food From Home” columnist Tom Hanchett. This walk is limited to 15 attendees. An RSVP to Claire Apaliski (capalisk@uncc.edu) is required to reserve your spot.  Due to its popularity, this walk is full.

We Walk Together, a monthly program in association with Mecklenburg Ministries, gathers diverse folks who walk and chat to learn about each other and their city. Join us at Little Rock AME Zion Church in Center City for 2.28 mile roundtrip walk to St. Paul Baptist, 1401 Allen Street in the Belmont neighborhood.

Join neighborhood leader Nancy Albert and others for a walking tour of the historic Elizabeth neighborhood. Elizabeth is Charlotte’s second streetcar suburb and is the location of the city’s first public park. Many residents who have made lasting impressions on the city have called Elizabeth home.

Join us for a slow paced ride through the South End and Dilworth neighborhoods as we stop to discuss historic homes and structures listed by the Charlotte Historic Landmarks Commission as Designated Historic properties. The ride will include several brief stops and highlights include the 1895 Park Manufacturing Co. building, the 1901 Villalonga-Alexander House, the 1897 Gautier-Gilchrist House, where we will hear from the owners about the long-time ghost residents and efforts to exorcise, and the 1927 Randolph Scott House. Participants are invited to continue the conversations at Pike’s Old Fashioned Soda Shop following the ride.

Join us for an hour walking tour of the Dilworth neighborhood, Charlotte's first streetcar suburb. Industrialist Edward Dilworth Latta developed the neighborhood, then outside Charlotte city's limits, during the 1890s. Walk is co-sponsored by the Charlotte Museum of History.

Wander through one of Charlotte’s unique neighborhoods, steeped with history -- Plaza Midwood, with historian Tom Hanchett. Co-sponsored by the Carolina Room of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.

Enjoy a walk with Brian Yesowitch offering up stories of notable Charlotteans who rest in Hebrew Cemetery. The cemetery dates back to 1867. You’ll hear about best-selling author and civil rights activist Harry Golden, discover civic leaders and learn about civil war soldier Corp. Louis Leon, author of Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, who is buried here.

Join David Walters, a professor in urban design, for a walk around Charlotte’s South End neighborhood. This six-block walk demonstrates what's good and bad about the new urban development that is transforming many of Charlotte's close-in neighborhoods, and answers some questions about how and why this happens and how the quality of redevelopment can be improved. The walk will begin at the Common Market courtyard off the north end of Camden Road (or its former site if it's been demolished before the date of the walk). Walk south on Camden and the Rail Trail as far as the Aston apartments. The walk ends on the terrace of Big Ben pub in Atherton Mill.

One of Charlotte’s oldest, most fascinating burial grounds and one of its newest, most exciting in-city neighborhoods are right next to each other on Statesville Ave. Brian Yesowitch of Temple Beth El will co-lead the walk with Tom Hanchett of Levine Museum Museum of the New South. This walk is being held in partnership with the We Walk Together initiative of Mecklenburg Ministries.

Walk with the Chinatown Youth Coalition and bear witness to development pressures threatening a way of life that has defined and protected the community’s low-income Chinese residents and businesses for generations. Hear community responses within the contexts of social justice and the right to remain, food security and community organizing. How can the needs of economic development also respect and serve the needs of a living community and culture of a National Historic Site and one of Vancouver’s founding neighbourhoods?