Rotary Trail

Rotary Club of Birmingham & Rotaract 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 Birmingham. The $3.5 million project transformed a blighted abandoned railroad cut into a beautiful landscaped, four-block walking/running/biking pathway. In commemoration of the trail's 10th anniversary, RCB is completing special projects to enhance the area.
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Members of the Rotary & Rotaract Clubs of Birmingham gathered with family, friends and community members for the annual Rotary Trail Service Day on April 13th. Volunteers spread mulch, removed litter, pulled weeds and prepared the trail for thousands of visitors who flock to the trail each spring. Rotary Trail is RCB’s centennial gift to the Birmingham community. Completed in 2016, 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 in partnership with the City of Birmingham.
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Mitch Reid, Rotary Club of Birmingham member and Director of The Nature Conservancy for Alabama, recently penned a guest column for the Birmingham Business Journal entitled “Metro Area is Gifted with Nature’s Bounty.” He discussed Alabama's ranking as the fourth most biologically diverse state in the country and offered examples of investments in the community and the natural world such as the Rotary Club of Birmingham’s partnership with Freshwater Land Trust to gift the Rotary Trail to the city.
“I focus my work within the conservancy on promoting what we have here in Alabama,” Reid said. “We are starting to see Alabama rise to the level of places that frankly receive a whole lot more attention like Belize or the Seychelles or the Great Barrier Reef. And I think we deserve it.”

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