Jasper Is Becoming One Of Alabama’s Best Towns For Trails And Outdoor Recreation

Alabama News Center | March 12, 2020 @ 2:00 pm

By Amy Conry Davis
This is Alabama

Once a coal-driven community, Jasper has been hard at work rebranding the identity of its small town. The city wants to embrace a culture of health and sustainability and capitalize on a different resource: the great outdoors.

Its vision is to become a recreational destination and trail town, along the lines of a “mini” Asheville, North Carolina.

Jasper has a wealth of wilderness areas nearby like William B. Bankhead National Forest, Walker County Lake and Lewis Smith Lake, so all that’s required is turning ideas into action.

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