If you live in Advance, your daily life almost certainly happens across a bridge. Groceries, coffee, the kids' practice fields, the after-work drink — most of it sits inside a five-mile radius that spills over into Bermuda Run, Hillsdale, and Tanglewood Park on the Forsyth side of the Yadkin. That geography has been true for years. What is finally changing this fall is the calendar and the infrastructure that ties it all together.
For most of the last decade, the stretch between US-158 and NC-801 has functioned like a well-appointed pass-through. Places to eat, yes. Reasons to linger, not really. Between now and Halloween, three separate things move at once: a Town Green concert-and-food-truck series returns with confirmed dates, a 3.3-mile pedestrian trail expansion is scheduled to break ground, and the intersection that dictates every Saturday morning finally has a funded plan behind it. Taken together, they mark the first real season where Bermuda Run behaves less like a gated community with a commercial edge and more like the walkable town center Advance never had.
The calendar that finally has anchor dates
The pattern you probably remember from summer is coming back on two specific Fridays. Food Truck Fridays return to Bermuda Run Town Center on September 12 and October 10, held on the Town Green at 100 Kinderton Blvd. Those two dates are the ones to put in your phone now, because the November light-up-and-lace-up window at Tanglewood swallows the entire regional calendar starting the week before Thanksgiving.
A few other anchors are worth marking if you plan Saturdays around what your kids and out-of-town cousins actually want to do:
- Tanglewood Park, Clemmons. The arboretum and Rose Garden, the public pool, the dog park, horse stables, and Mallard Lake for fishing and paddleboat rentals stay open through the shoulder season. Weeknights are quieter than weekends by a wide margin.
- The Mocksville Farmers' Market. Tuesday afternoons through the fall, in the town square nine miles down 158.
- WinMock at Kinderton. The restored dairy barn — built around 1930 for R.J. Reynolds executive S. Clay Williams, added to the National Register of Historic Places in December 2010, and now operating as the WinMock at Kinderton event venue — hosts a rotating slate of markets, tastings, and holiday shows worth checking before the season books out.
None of this is new information to someone who has lived here five years. What is new is the density. Three of those anchors sit within a mile of each other on the same side of the river.
What starts breaking ground in October
The larger story, if you own a home east of NC-801, is a trail. After earlier work on the Blue Heron Trail in recent years, the town unveiled details about work beginning on the latest addition — the Bermuda Run East Pedestrian Plan — with the first two phases of the 3.3-mile overall project starting in the very near future.
According to the engineering update presented to town council in July, Jordan Boggess of Wetherill Engineering provided information regarding the designs and plans for the Riverbend Drive and Bermuda Run Drive pedestrian path in Bermuda Run East, with the project divided into four phases and Phases 1 and 2 combined to be put out for bid together. Construction is anticipated to begin in October along Riverbend and Bermuda Run drives.
"Important for us to be able to connect from end to end so residents and visitors can walk, run or bike throughout our town."
That framing from former Mayor Rick Cross has been the town's stated ambition for years. This fall is when the pavement actually shows up. The town is putting up $429,746 of its own funds against a total construction estimate of $2,839,236, with the remainder covering design, permitting, and inspection. If you live along either drive, expect lane closures and staging equipment through the winter. If you don't, expect the connective tissue between the country club, the town center, and the river to look meaningfully different by the time the daffodils come up.
Where people are actually eating this fall
If you have driven US-158 past Hillsdale in the last month, you already know the dining bench is deeper than the strip-center facade suggests. A short, honest list of what locals are ordering:
Davie Tavern, at 5279 US Hwy 158, remains the most-referenced sit-down in the corridor. A new fresh local tavern that prides itself on fantastic fresh food with wine and spirits, established in 2016, with head chef Mack Parker. Sunday brunch runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and books up two weeks out during football season.
Tanglewood Pizza Co., tucked into the same corridor, does what almost no other place in Davie County does well: 100% wood-fired pizza with 25 beers on draft, regularly featuring local talent and live music events. Their music calendar is where you find the smaller weekend acts that never make the Winston-Salem alt-weekly.
Maddie Cakes, founded by Davie County local Maddie Myers in 2017, is the one to know when a birthday sneaks up on you Thursday night for a Saturday party. Order-ahead is the norm.
Venezia's on 801 handles the Sunday-night pasta obligation, and Venezia's Party Room can seat 30 people for any occasion, which is worth remembering when you host the holiday work lunch nobody volunteered for. Los Toritos covers the Tex-Mex weeknight. Chick-fil-A Bermuda Run at 260 NC Hwy 801 N is a 6:30 a.m. breakfast fixture, and yes, that clarifies the drive-thru line you sit in every Tuesday.
The point isn't that these places are secret. It's that when you actually plot them, the corridor is a competent little food scene. Compare that to what was here five years ago, and the trajectory speaks for itself.
The intersection that's about to change your Saturday morning
Everyone who lives in Advance has an opinion about the light at US-158 and NC-801. Left turns are the stuff of local group-chat lore. What most residents don't know is that the fix has finally cleared its scoring hurdle.
Highway projects in Bermuda Run and Clemmons scored high in the most recent rankings compiled in the Winston-Salem Urban Area Transportation Advisory meeting. The top-ranked highway project in the region, per the July 2026 agenda, is H185121 — an upgrade of the intersection of U.S. 158 and N.C. 801 — with a companion project to upgrade and widen U.S. 158 from Harper Road to Lewisville-Clemmons Road and transition the roadway to a road diet from Harper Road to the Bermuda Run roundabout. Many of these projects may pick up funding from the Divisional Needs process shared with the public in October and voted on by the TPO in November.
What that means in plain English: the roundabout many of you saw on the concept drawings two years ago is real, funded, and scheduled. Timing of dirt-turning is still a bidding question, but the decision is no longer hypothetical. If you sell within the next 18 months and your street feeds either 158 or 801, be prepared for buyer questions about the construction window. If you're buying, factor a temporary detour season into whatever you're modeling.
One transition worth naming
The other quiet shift, easy to miss if you don't follow town council: the Town of Bermuda Run officially swore in Rae Nelson as Mayor on May 13, 2026. The Community Celebration on the Town Green on July 26, marking America's 250-year anniversary with live music from Alek Ottaway, was one of the first big signaling moments of the new administration's tone. Expect the town-green programming — food trucks, concerts, holiday markets — to keep expanding on the Kinderton Boulevard footprint.
The one weekend to circle
If you can only put one full weekend on the calendar between now and the leaves turning, make it the September 12 Food Truck Friday on the Town Green followed by a Saturday morning at Tanglewood before the Festival of Lights crew starts blocking off the interior roads. That combination — town-center evening on the Bermuda Run side, big-park daytime on the Clemmons side — is the specific pattern this fall is building toward. Twelve months from now, when the pedestrian path opens and the roundabout is under construction, that weekend will look nothing like it does today.
If you're thinking about how any of this affects the value of your home, or whether the fall window is the right time to list before the intersection work starts making headlines, Karen Pardue knows this corridor block by block. Schedule your free consultation and get a straight read on your Advance or Bermuda Run property. You can also start with an instant valuation or read our full Advance neighborhood guide.
