1
Red Mountain Park
Park
1,047 acres9 mi of trail
Ike Maston TrailSkyhy Ridge WalkShook TrailSpring Gap TrailEureka Mines Trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Birmingham
Birmingham, AL parks, trails & bike paths
About 4% of Birmingham is conserved land, roughly 3,783 acres. There are about 68 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Red Mountain Park (9 mi), Ruffner Mountain (5.4 mi), and Birmingham Botanical Gardens (2.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Birmingham, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Birmingham outdoors
Conserved land
4%
3,783 of 95,248 acres
Trails
68 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 31 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
76
19 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
37.0 mi
12.3 mi lanes · 15.7 mi off-road paths
Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
2
Ruffner Mountain
Nature preserve
1,396 acres5.4 mi of trail
Possum Loop TrailPipeline TrailQuarry TrailRidge and Valley TrailBuckeye Trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Managed by Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens
50 acres2.8 mi of trail
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
4
UAB Campus Green
Park
21 acres1.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
East Lake Park
Managed by Birmingham Park and Recreation Board
62 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
WC Patton Park
Managed by Birmingham Park and Recreation Board
39 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7
Railroad Park
Park
16 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
8
Flora Johnston Nature Park
Managed by Birmingham Park and Recreation Board
54 acres1.1 mi of trail
Flora Johnston Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 60 parks & preserves
- Greenwood Park44 ac · 1.1 mi trail · Directions
- Linn Park7 ac · 0.9 mi trail · Directions
- Avondale Park37 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Crestwood Park11 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Vulcan Park10 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Kelly Ingram Park3 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Ensley Park33 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- City Walk BHAM21 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Rushton Park8 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Avenues of Lakeshore Greenspace2 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Tom Bradford Park11 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Bessie Estell Park8 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Norwood Park5 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- UAB Minipark3 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Brother Bryan Park2 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- George Ward Park94 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Alabama Veterans Memorial Park7 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Oxmoor Park7 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- A.G. Gaston Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Henley Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Caldwell Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Alabama Wilds2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Valley View Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Bevill Building Courtyard2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Cooper Green Park80 ac · Directions
- McLendon Park52 ac · Directions
- East Pinson Valley Community Park29 ac · Directions
- Wiggins Park23 ac · Directions
- Norwood Boulevard Park Trail21 ac · Directions
- Wahouma Park16 ac
- Fountain Heights Park16 ac
- North Birmingham Park13 ac · Directions
- Lowery Park13 ac · Directions
- Dorothy Spears Park11 ac
- Pratt City Park11 ac
- Altamont Park10 ac
- Central Park10 ac · Directions
- Downey Park10 ac
- Lynn Park10 ac · Directions
- Inglenook Park10 ac
- Green Acres Park8 ac
- Memorial Park8 ac · Directions
- Maclin Park8 ac
- Howze-Sanford Park7 ac · Directions
- Woodward Park7 ac · Directions
- MacAlpin Park7 ac · Directions
- Stockham Park7 ac
- Hooper City Park7 ac
- Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens7 ac · Directions
- McMahon Park5 ac
- One Pratt Park5 ac · Directions
- Martin Luther King Junior Park5 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
3,783 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes12.3 mi
- Off-road bike paths15.7 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes9.1 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis144
- Baseball69
- Tracks52
- Basketball34
- Football14
- Soccer5
- Beach volleyball5
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Birmingham and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | 4% | 67.5 mi | 76 |
| Irondale | 1% | 8.2 mi | 3 |
| Homewood | 1.7% | 2.7 mi | 7 |
| Mountain Brook | 1.4% | 11.5 mi | 3 |
| Trussville | 1.4% | 2.1 mi | 6 |
| Vestavia Hills | 1.2% | 4.6 mi | 6 |
| Hoover | 1.7% | 37.3 mi | 28 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Birmingham's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.
Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.
How we measure
"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 81.1-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.