Rotary & Rotaract Members Serve on Rotary Trail

Rotary and Rotaract members, family & friends gather to clean up Rotary Trail.

Rotary Club of Birmingham (RCB) and Rotaract Club of Birmingham members, family and friends recently teamed up for a service day on Rotary Trail. Volunteers spread mulch, removed litter, pulled weeds and prepared the trail for spring, when the warm weather brings thousands of visitors to the trail each week.

Completed in 2016, Rotary Trail is RCB’s centennial gift to the Birmingham community. The 3.5-million-dollar project transformed a blighted abandoned railroad cut into a landscaped, four-block walking/running/biking pathway that connects Railroad Park and Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark along First Avenue South as an anchor element of the Jefferson County Redrock Trail System. The RCB Foundation supports the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of Rotary Trail to provide the mulch, pine straw, new plants, sprinkler repairs and other landscape services needed, in partnership with Blackjack Horticulture, to help keep Rotary Trail in top shape.

In celebration of Rotary Trail’s 10th anniversary, RCB is completing special projects and launched a campaign to create Rotary Trail’s Eastern Gateway: A Trailhead of the Red Rock Trail System in the Heart of Downtown Birmingham. Click here to learn more!