Kiwanis Centennial Park Connects Birmingham’s Vulcan To Growing Greenway Network

By Michael Sznajderman

For decades, Birmingham’s iconic iron man, Vulcan, and the nearby walking trail named for him were very close neighbors that didn’t quite connect.

On Tuesday, city officials, greenway supporters and leaders with the Kiwanis Club of Birmingham and the Vulcan Park and Museum gathered to applaud a major expansion to the park that will link one of the city’s biggest attractions to the scenic Vulcan Trail, which also has just been expanded.

The centerpiece of the project is Kiwanis Centennial Park, a new open plaza and event space just below the existing Vulcan Park and Museum grounds atop Red Mountain. It ties in to the Vulcan Trail, renamed the Kiwanis Vulcan Trail, which now extends 2.2 miles to the west to Green Springs Highway. The original trail was just 1 mile, following the path of the old Birmingham Mineral Railroad.There’s a third component to the Kiwanis project: a multicolored light show to be projected onto Vulcan nightly. It is to be completed later this year.

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