Try a Trail Less Traveled

What a gorgeous Spring we are having in Birmingham!

Our friends at Freshwater Land Trust have put together a list of "trails less traveled" to help you find new trails to safely explore in Jefferson County.

PLEASE: Always maintain a MINIMUM of 6 feet between you and other people, even if that means stopping and walking off the trail.  If a parking lot or trail looks busy, come back another time or visit another trail on the list!

Cahaba River Corridor 

  • Civitation Park Trail (1.8 mi): 75 Parkway Drive, Trussville, AL 35173

  • Boulder Canyon Loop Trail (1.02 mi):  Vestavia Hills Library, 1221 Montgomery Hwy, Vestavia Hills, AL 35216

  • Aldridge Gardens (0.9 mi): 3530 Lorna Road Hoover, AL 35216

  • McCallum Park Trails (1.05 mi): McCallum Park/Rosemary Lane, Vestavia Hills, AL 35216

Five Mile Creek Corridor 

  • Five Mile Creek Greenway (5.5 mi): Black Creek Park, Yarbrough Rd, Birmingham, AL 35217

  • North Aqueduct Trail (2.21 mi): Chief William C. Hewitt Park, 2475 Pinson Valley Pkwy, Birmingham, AL 35217)

  • Reed Harvey Community Greenway Wetland Park Trail (0.3 mi): 1635 Barrington Cir, Center Point, AL 35215

  • Gardendale Urban Trail (3.17 mi): 2191 Fieldstown Road, Mt. Olive, AL 35117

Jones Valley Corridor 

  • High Ore Line Trail (2.28 mi): Western Health Center, 631 Bessemer Super Highway, Birmingham, AL 35228

  • Clairmont Walking Trail (0.51 mi): Intersection of Clairmont Avenue and Rockford Road, Birmingham, AL 35222

  • 1st Avenue South / Jones Valley Greenway (0.63 mi): 2501 1st Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35233 

  • Bessemer Rail Trail (0.43 mil): 15th Street South, Bessemer, AL 35020

Shades Creek Corridor 

  • Homewood Forest Preserve (1.32 mi): 1919 South Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35216

  • Irondale Furnace Greenway (0.58 mi): 4175 Stone River Rd, Mountain Brook, AL 35213

  • Flora Johnston Nature Trail/ North Shades Creek Greenway (1.49 mi): 311 Elder Street, Irondale, AL, 35210

  • Wildwood Preserve (0.52 mi): 1298 Forest Brook Circle, Birmingham, AL 35226

Village Creek Corridor 

  • Enon Ridge Trail / Dorothy Spears Greenway (1.07 mi): East Thomas Park (1404 3rd Street West)

  • Ensley-Pratt Greenway (1.16 mi): 1221 Avenue V, Birmingham, AL 35218

  • Birmingham Eastside EcoGardens (0.26 mi): Eastern Health Center, 1400 6th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35233

For more trail details, visit: freshwaterlandtrust.org/find-a-trail