Event Description

Join us for the Inaugural Sweetwater Greenway Loop Run/Walk on

Sunday, February 19, 2023!

Choose between a FREE Fun 5K or a 1 Mile Run/Walk at Tom Petty Park!

Event Shirts GUARANTEED to the first 200 to register

This event is part of the Sarah's Sweetwater Greenway Loop Festival.  Sarah’s Sweetwater Greenway Loop Festival is a local celebration of Gainesville’s unique artistic, environmental, and civic heritage and an acknowledgement of the need for greater collaboration throughout our historic neighborhoods. This joint effort provides residents who live and work along the proposed route of a greenway already approved by the City of Gainesville’s Strategic Plan the opportunity to come together as neighbors and strengthen their bonds of community, as well as contribute their voices and their ideas to the visioning process.

Early Packet Pick-up

Saturday February 18th, 2023

3:00-6:00 PM    Early Packet Pick Up & Registration at Pleasant St. / 5th Ave., near the Caribbean Queen

Event Day Schedule

Sunday February 19th, 2023

8:00 AM    Registration & Packet Pickup Opens

8:50 AM    Registration & Packet Pickup Closes

9:00 AM    5K Fun Run/Walk and 1 Mile Run/Walk Start

10:00 AM  Festival Opens at Roper Park 

2:00 PM    Festival Opens at S.E Historic District 

"This is a community-wide endeavor to bring Gainesville residents together through a collaboration that celebrates our unique artistic, environmental, and civic heritage. This project aims to promote a more cohesive vision for what the proposed Sweetwater Loop should offer the community and our natural landscape-from the voices of the community itself."