Five Mile Creek Greenway

The Blueprint for Greenways in the Heart of Alabama was completed in December 2011 through funding from the Building Communities program at the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham.  The Blueprint for Greenways is a manual for implementation of Greenway Plans Using Five Mile Creek Greenway as an example. The manual is posted on the Greenways Page of this web site greenway-parks/how-to-book

August 2011

Lots of news from ASRT—everything has changed for our fall events!

When you conduct events on the Alabama rivers, you get used to weather being at least a little bit involved with your job. But this year, WOW. It has all come down to the weather, and in once case, the economy.

Wind damage from the April tornadoes has directly and indirectly caused us to move our Coffee Slough paddle on the Tennessee River to Cypress Creek in Florence. The camping area at Guntersville State Park, home base to our October paddle there, was destroyed. That event has been moved to Huntsville’s Ditto Landing. Budget cuts are closing the US Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds along the Alabama River, including Isaac Creek what was to be home to our Fall Paddle in November. That event has been moved to the exquisitely wild Tombigbee.

Go to www.alabamascenicrivertrail.com for more updates!

Alabama Hiking Trail Society News: Historic Pinhoti Trail Work Days Scheduled by USFS

The final push is on to complete the Pinhoti Trail to the southern end of the Talladega National Forest! We’ve just received word from Leslie Hodge with USFS about a BIG work day! Here’s the message from Leslie. Volunteer if you can for this historic event!

We will meet at 9:00am on August 23 at Bulls Gap Trail Head parking lot (located off highway 148). Please bring PLENTY OF WATER, lunch and snacks, work gloves, hearing protection (ear plugs), a hard hat, safety glasses (sun glasses work fine), bug spray, and sun screen. Please dress appropriate for safe work on a hot day (light colored shirt, long pants, sturdy shoes/boots). If you do not have a hard hat we will have some on hand. We will also have trail building tools but if you have a favorite tool for trail building please bring that along.

We will be machine constructing approximately 4 miles of trail which should take around 10 to 14 days. If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you and I look forward to seeing you there! Lesley M. Hodge Natural Resource Specialist USDA- Talladega National Forest- Shoal Creek RD Email: lhodge@fs.fed.us

Contact Leslie Hodge with US Forest Service at lhodge@fs.fed.us