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5 / 18 / 99 1 . Greenways In the past 15 years , a considerable degree of planning has occurred in the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro for greenways . In 1985 , the Town of Chapel Hill received a Greenways Task Force Report that led to the creation of a Greenways Commission , and the planning and development of Bolin Creek Greenway , In 1996 , a Comprehensive Greenways Master Plan was adopted that outlines future greenways , funding and construction plans and priorities . The 1996 plan focused on four new greenway trails : Lower Booker Creek ( Phase II ) , Upper Booker Creek , Dry Creek ( phase I ) and Dry Creek ( Phase II ) . While the Towns of Carrboro and Hillsborough do not have a formal greenways program , recent initiatives to link Occoneechee Mountain to the Eno River State Park and develop a Riverwalk along the Eno in Hillsborough ( in conjunction with Orange County ) would form a significant beginning for a greenways system in the Town of Hillsborough . Future efforts to explore greenways in Carrboro, possibly linked to the Town 's extensive bikeways, are also on the horizon . There is a fourth area where the potential for greenways currently exists , although no facilities have been planned or developed to date . The 1986 Joint Planning Area Plan Use Plan adopted by the County , Chapel Hill and Carrboro contains a strategy map that provides for future greenway corridors along the network of streams in the Rural Buffer area as well as the Town "s long - term transition areas . Through the Orange County Subdivision Regulations , the County has a policy to require dedication of land for greenways in the Rural Buffer area . While some land has been dedicated to date in the Rural Buffer, no plans have been developed for a greenway system . This subject would likely be dealt with in the planned revision to the County Master Recreation and Parks Plan , 2 . Wildlife Corridors In 1988 , the Triangle Land Conservancy developed an Inventory of Natural Areas and Wildlife Habitats for Orange County . In identifying 64 of the most significant sites countywide , the Inventory also identified and addressed the importance of preserving wildlife corridors along selected streams and ridges as connectors . These connectors provide habitat and allow migrating wildlife to move between larger open land masses and water bodies . In many of these corridors a primitive trail system may already exist , formed by years or use by wildlife and local hikers . 22