Year in Preview: Cahaba River Park opening

December 20, 2013 5:51 PM

Image courtesy of Nimrod Long and Associates.

Mountain Brook residents should be able to use the new Cahaba River Park on Overton Road at Oakdale Drive by fall 2014.

Bids for the construction of the park are scheduled to go out in January, according to Gaston. Construction should start around March and will probably take four to five months to complete.

The first phase of construction will likely include only parking, walkways and river access, with other facilities like an outdoor classroom, pavilion, benches, picnic tables and a fishing ledge coming later, depending on what is included in the final plan. The Park Board is heading up efforts to raise private funds for some of these amenities.

The City acquired the 4.7-acre park property in fall 2011 and began plans for it in early 2012.

The park could one day connect to a riverfront greenway trail similar to the Jemison Trail; a trail could run 1.5 to 2 miles to the Carraway-Davie House and Conference Center in Vestavia Hills.