Buck Creek Trail, Alabama, United States

5MES17 5:00 PM Jan 25, 2020

Go and then go often!
Buck Creek Trail provides a peaceful place to walk through nature anytime of the day and year! The walking trail is level and easy to travel. Usually there are other people and dog’s on leashes enjoying the natural beauty around them. Wildflowers are found here and there on the trail. Large brown rabbits are to be found in the early morning near the blue hole. Sulfur butterflies use the trail and it’s water during September as they migrate through our state. Even in the bleak of winter, the trail is just lovely. All during the year the sound of the rush or slow movement of Buck Creek is enjoyable like nature’s true music. Go enjoy the Trail and leave nothing behind.

4Ron J 5:00 PM Aug 4, 2014

Buck Creek Trail
A graveled level trail than runs along side or near Buck Creek. It begins at Buck Creek Park which has a 1/4 mile paved walking track, play groung , picnic facilities, a youth football field and three sofball fields. The trail generally follows the creek and where it does not side trails carry you along it. It is gererally associated with Buck Creek Cotton Mills which has now been demolished and is the location of City Hall and the Senior Center and Thompson Plantation which is across the creek and was the home of the mills founder. That area is now a subdivision. Along the trail you pass bridge pilings that supported a bridge from the Thompson home to the mill. A running spring, an island that contains picnic facilities, and the mill dam and pond. The trail can be accessed at this point also by parking at the Senior Center. As you continue along a spur trail takes you the "Blue Hole" which is a hugh spring that feeds into the middle of the creek. At the center it is said to be bottomless. There is usually beaver sign in this area. The trail continues until it ends a Warrior Park which is the site of more youth ball fields, the high school football and baseball stadiums. It also has picnic and play ground facilities. Extention of the trail is being proposed in the future. It is a great place for an easy family walk or to walk your dog and let it play in the creek. Kids do wade and swim at several points. The only hang up is that you must return on the same trail. Benches are located at numerous points along the trail and bags for the disposal of dog waste are also available. A good cool shady place for a summer visit and beautiful foliage in the fall