Ground Broken On Three Mile Creek Greenway Trail Section

The City of Mobile hosted a groundbreaking for the next section of the Three Mile Creek Greenway Trail on June 22. The trail is the realization of a decades-old vision to create a linear park system connected by biking, walking and running paths that follow the path of Three Mile Creek. The city constructed the first section of the trail, which currently ends near Fredrick D. Richardson Tricentennial Park, in 2017. Supported by federal, state and local funds, the new phase of the trail will pick up where the current Tricentennial Park trail terminates at Yerby Drive and continue westward to the campus of University Hospital. This new 0.6-mi. addition to the existing trail will be under construction for approximately nine months. The project was designed by Dix.Hite + Partners, and construction is being led by McElhenney Construction Co. Partnerships with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Alabama Department of Transportation are also supporting the project. Once completed, the Trail will run 6.5 mi., connecting multiple city parks, local infrastructure and Downtown Mobile.