Difficulty: Easy to Difficult depending on trail
Distance: Depends on the trail. There are 16 miles of trail in the park
Entry Fee: Free (donation box available – suggested $3 donation)
Red Mountain Park is the largest urban park in Alabama at 1500 acres and is full of views and interesting old mining equipment left over from the late 1800s/early 1900s.
I only did the west side of the park, but the park has many more miles of trails that you can explore!
You can get the official trail map here.Â
Red Mountain Park is located an hour and a half south of Huntsville, just south of Birmingham.
If you just Google “Red Mountain” it will take you to a different parking lot than the one I suggest. Click this link for directions to our suggested parking.
Parking
There’s plenty of parking in the parking lot for dozens of cars. Parking lot has a port-a-potty and a trailhead with a map. Park here.
Trails
The trails vary greatly, depending on which trail you are on. Some of them are wide and flat, some are narrow and winding. The trails ARE NOT WELL MARKED. Typically they have a sign where trails meet, but some of them have been ripped down, and some of the trails are unmarked. This place is a bit of a maze so keep up with where you are.Â
Haskell Hideaway
The Haskell Hideaway is located in the tree tops on Trail #8 (Green Trail on map). The bridge goes OVER trail #16, but is not accessible from that trail. You must take Trail #8 to get here. The easiest way to get here is to follow trail #17 until it meets with trail #8 and take trail #8 to the hideaway. The more fun approach is to take trail #17 unit it meets with trail #9. Take #9 to #10 and the follow trail #10 until it meets with #8/
Overlook and Big Chairs
The Big Chairs and Red Mountain overlook are a great place to sit and take in a view. This also has an old Mine tunnel you can see as well as old mining machines.
Mining History
The entire park has old mining infrastructure with bits of history. You can find old abandoned buildings, old walls, and even an old mine tunnel (pictured) in the park.Â
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