Monte Sano Preserve
Bankhead Parking Lot:
From University Drive and Memorial
Parkway, follow Pratt Avenue East, through Five Points business district.
Continue through Five Points on Pratt and continue straight as Pratt changes to
Bankhead Parkway. Parking lot is 1/2 mile past Toll Gate Road, on the
right. Access to Bluff Line, Toll Gate, Old Railroad Bed, Fagan Springs and
Old Railroad Bed trails.
Wade Mountain Preserve
Parking Area: Drive north on Memorial Parkway, past Alabama
A&M University. Turn left on the first road north of Winchester
Highway - Hollow Road. Turn right onto Spraggins Hollow Road. Parking
lot is on the right, just past the third 90 degree turn in the road. (Access
to arm of Wade Mountain known as Devil's Racetrack.)
Three Caves
Quarry/Monte Sano Preserve Parking Area:
From Governor's Drive,
drive north on California (by Huntsville Hospital East); turn right onto Hermitage
Drive. Continue east to the end of the road, and turn left on Kennamer
Drive. Parking lot is on the right past the swimming pool.
South
Monte Sano Trailhead - access to Trough Springs:
From Governor's Drive, turn onto Monte Sano Blvd. Trailhead parking
lot is just past Burritt on the Mountain.
Blevins Gap Preserve Parking Area:
From Memorial Parkway go east on Airport Rd.; cross over Whitesburg and
continue into Jones Valley. Airport Road turns into Carl T. Jones Drive.
Go about 4 miles.
At the Four Mile Post/Cecil B. Ashburn light (Super Target Center is on
your right), turn left and go to the top of the mountain towards Hampton
Cove. Blevins Gap is at the top (between Huntsville and Green Mountains).
Graveled parking area on right is marked by a small Land Trust sign.