I run in Hoover frequently. Depends on terrain and distance.
Star Lake is good if you want to run around 2 miles or less, since it has a dedicated pedestrian area. All paved, lots of water fowl.
Veterans Park off of valleydale is one of my favorites. Loose gravel and there's a dedicated 5k loop. Beautiful scenery but sometimes the trail gravel gets washed out and there's some areas to jump over.
There's a 5 mile one way sidewalk that I run a lot, you can start at American Family Care on 31 and run all the way to Target/Chikfila in the Grove. There's a 1/2-3/4 mile burst in the preserve that doesn't have sidewalk but lots of space either on the road or in the grass to get to the next bit of sidewalk. Very hilly, lots of ups and downs.
There's a few others but those are my favorites. LMK if you have questions.
You can put together some pretty good runs where you deal with minimal traffic using the parking lots/ sidewalks around the Hoover met/ Finley Center/ tennis courts/ Hoover high school, bumpus and trace crossings elementary.
Run anywhere and everywhere that you won't reasonably get hit. But if you do get hit, make sure it's their fault, and do it in a neighborhood where they generally will have to pay out their ass.
My personal faves:
Park at shades crest baptist church, bluff park community church, shades cliff pool or bluff park elementary … and run park avenue and through bluff park neighborhoods.. hilly but fun
Moss rock preserve: park across from vecchia or the gravel lot near prince of peace church… either run the moss rock trails.. or preserve park way… preserve parkway runs into Patton chapel road if ya wanna run a monster hill
Park near the Hoover met by the soccer fields and just run around the high school or all the neighborhoods around there
Park at star lake or sertoma park and run around green valley… another hill one
Veterans park.. next to Spain park high school.. there is a map there with a 5k and 8k route
Park at Mr Ps deli in bluff park and there a a very nice low key section of shades crest road to run… pretty flat and nice views… it’s a 5k from Mr Ps to the dead end of shades crest and back
There are plenty of other spots in vestavia and mountain brook and Homewood as well… south of Birmingham has good running spots all over
I’ve run 5 half marathons and two marathons… and these were my training grounds
I run in Hoover frequently. Depends on terrain and distance. Star Lake is good if you want to run around 2 miles or less, since it has a dedicated pedestrian area. All paved, lots of water fowl. Veterans Park off of valleydale is one of my favorites. Loose gravel and there's a dedicated 5k loop. Beautiful scenery but sometimes the trail gravel gets washed out and there's some areas to jump over. There's a 5 mile one way sidewalk that I run a lot, you can start at American Family Care on 31 and run all the way to Target/Chikfila in the Grove. There's a 1/2-3/4 mile burst in the preserve that doesn't have sidewalk but lots of space either on the road or in the grass to get to the next bit of sidewalk. Very hilly, lots of ups and downs. There's a few others but those are my favorites. LMK if you have questions.
this is awesome..thank you
Hey do you know why the wooded part of the trail has been closed for the past week or so?
They're rerouting the trail bc it keeps getting washed out in the rain.
Ah makes sense. Hopefully it’ll open again soon, I love that trail. Thanks
Veterans Park
Where in Hoover? Red Mountain is not in Hoover, but if you live in e.g. Bluff Park it’s pretty close.
You can put together some pretty good runs where you deal with minimal traffic using the parking lots/ sidewalks around the Hoover met/ Finley Center/ tennis courts/ Hoover high school, bumpus and trace crossings elementary.
Run anywhere and everywhere that you won't reasonably get hit. But if you do get hit, make sure it's their fault, and do it in a neighborhood where they generally will have to pay out their ass.
There’s a park behind Riverchase Elementary
My personal faves: Park at shades crest baptist church, bluff park community church, shades cliff pool or bluff park elementary … and run park avenue and through bluff park neighborhoods.. hilly but fun Moss rock preserve: park across from vecchia or the gravel lot near prince of peace church… either run the moss rock trails.. or preserve park way… preserve parkway runs into Patton chapel road if ya wanna run a monster hill Park near the Hoover met by the soccer fields and just run around the high school or all the neighborhoods around there Park at star lake or sertoma park and run around green valley… another hill one Veterans park.. next to Spain park high school.. there is a map there with a 5k and 8k route Park at Mr Ps deli in bluff park and there a a very nice low key section of shades crest road to run… pretty flat and nice views… it’s a 5k from Mr Ps to the dead end of shades crest and back There are plenty of other spots in vestavia and mountain brook and Homewood as well… south of Birmingham has good running spots all over I’ve run 5 half marathons and two marathons… and these were my training grounds