On August 13, 2025, we celebrated the reopening of the Charles Wood Japanese Garden, which has now become the newest section of the Three Mile Creek Greenway Trail. This trail stretches for three-quarters of a mile from the entrance to the garden. Once the Greenway Trail is fully completed, the Japanese Garden will be seamlessly connected to an 18-mile trail, providing Mobilians and tourists with a safe and convenient option for biking or walking our beautiful city.
In addition to the new trail segment, we’ve also made other improvements to the garden, including ADA accessibility upgrades and a completely rebuilt and restriped parking lot. In the coming weeks, we’ll be adding security lighting, cameras, and finishing out some other punch list items, but as of this morning, the trail is open and it’s beautiful.
For more information about the Greenway Trail, visit this link:
[Music] This is really amazing. We’re at the location of the Japanese Gardens. This is the trail head. How many years have we been talking about the 3M Creek Trail? And we’ve been working on it earnestly for at least for 10 years. This trail is part of a a larger trail system, probably encompassing about 18 miles of biking and walking when it’s all completed. When you turn that curve and you get into the shade of the trees, for those that haven’t been here, you you’re not going to believe that you’re in Mobile. I go way back to 20 years ago when I first started on the city council and working with Charles Wood. He would come out here with a chainsaw and a ladder and try to trim the tree limbs and do what he could to try to maintain this wonderful and as the mayor said, hidden gem here in our city. So, look at what we have today. A renewal of this entire area. And it’s so exciting that we have this for the people who live here and who have been wanting something like this for for years. Whether you’re a mobileian or whether you’re a visitor, you’ll be very impressed with what we’ve done uh to connect our community. Very
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