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Oak Mountain State Park
Managed by Alabama State Parks
8,623 acres86.5 mi of trail
BlueWhiteFoothills Trail (Yellow)SlingShotJekyll
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Pelham
Pelham, AL parks, trails & bike paths
About 37% of Pelham is conserved land, roughly 9,185 acres. There are about 97 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Oak Mountain State Park (86.5 mi) and Pelham City Park (2.3 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Pelham, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Pelham outdoors
Conserved land
37%
9,185 of 25,043 acres
Trails
97 mi
2.5 mi per sq mi · 88 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
370 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
11.8 mi
10.6 mi lanes · 1.2 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
Pelham City Park
Park
68 acres2.3 mi of trail
Pelham Greenway Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Carroll Park
Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Macallan Park
Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 5 parks & preserves
- Pelham Park Playground1 ac
Who protects the land
9,185 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 401 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes10.6 mi
- Off-road bike paths1.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Oak Mountain Red Trail (bike route)19 mi
- Pelham Greenway Trail (bike route)0.5 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis12
- Baseball10
- Basketball5
- Tracks5
- Soccer4
- Beach volleyball3
- Football2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Pelham and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pelham | 36.7% | 97.4 mi | 5 |
| Alabaster | 2.4% | 3.8 mi | 10 |
| Chelsea | 0.2% | 2.9 mi | 2 |
| Helena | 2.6% | 7.4 mi | 9 |
| Hoover | 1.7% | 37.3 mi | 28 |
| Eagle Point | 2.6% | 0.9 mi | 1 |
| Indian Springs Village | 0.5% | 0.1 mi | 2 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Pelham'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 31.6-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.