New 1.8-mile greenway approved for western Huntsville
Published on January 11, 2024
The City of Huntsville is moving forward with plans for a new greenway in the western corridor that will also become a part of the Singing River Trail.
The Miller Branch Greenway will stretch from the Huntsville International Airport, 1.8 miles southwest from Wall Triana Highway to Swancott Road, following Beadle Lane for part of the path.
Cost for the project will be shared by the City and the Metropolitan Planning Organization as part of Transportation Alternative Program funding. The City will spend $192,500 to cover its 20 percent obligation while MPO will cover the remaining 80 percent. The total cost of the project is $962,500.
The greenway will be paved and some property will be donated by the Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority while other parts of the trail will be in existing roadway right-of-way. The trailhead will be off Wall Triana Highway.
A second phase of the greenway will be constructed at a later date.
“It’s another piece of the expanding greenway network, and it’s particularly exciting to see it branching out west,” said Dennis Madsen, the City’s manager of Urban & Long-Range Planning. “It’s an important step toward better connection to an underappreciated local resource, the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge, and it’s also doing double-duty not just as a Huntsville City Greenway, but also as a segment within the larger Signing River Trail network.”
The Singing River Trail is a planned greenway system extending more than 200 miles across north Alabama intended to strengthen regional bonds and create new health and wellness, educational, economic, tourism and entrepreneurial opportunities.
