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Rotary Trail is the Rotary Club of Birmingham’s 100th anniversary gift to the Birmingham community. Completed in 2015, the 3.5-million dollar project transformed a vacant railroad right-of-way, or “cut,” into a pleasantly-landscaped walking/running/biking pathway.
The trail’s economic impact has been tremendous, with millions of dollars invested in the once blighted area.
The original Magic City sign was located in front of Birmingham’s Terminal Station, which operated from 1909 until 1969. The sign, which was erected in 1926, originally read “Welcome to Birmingham. In March of 2016, a new Magic City sign was erected as a marker to the entrance of the Rotary Trail
The Trail is the heart of the Jones Valley Trail Corridor within the Red Rock Trail System that will connect the 9,000-acre Red Mountain Park in the Oxmoor Valley to Railroad Park, and via the Rotary Trail, to Sloss Furnaces Historic landmark. Long-range plans see the trail system connecting Sloss Furnaces to the Ruffner Mountain preserve in Eastern Birmingham.