Upcoming Activities
NOVEMBER 11, WEDNESDAY, 9:45 a.m.
Southeastern Outings Weekday Hike
Where: Veterans Park, 4800 Valleydale Road, Hoover, AL 35242
Details: Come with us on a weekday hike. Enjoy an easy 3-mile hike on trails in North Shelby County just off Valleydale Road. Veterans Park is an 82-acre park with numerous walking trails, a four-acre lake and a one-acre pond.
If you are retired or not working or have off on this particular Wednesday, you are urged to participate in the Southeastern Outings group hike on the trails and get a feel for the location and scale of the land.
This walk will be Southeastern Outings’ tenth hike in Veterans Park. Come with us for a guided tour of easily walkable trails. Please bring water and wear good walking shoes or boots. Dress appropriately for the weather.
Please meet at 9:45 a.m. in the Veterans Park parking lot right beside the building with restrooms in it at the park. We plan to depart from there at 10:00 a.m.
Admission to Park: free
Optional lunch nearby after the hike at Metro Diner Restaurant in Inverness.
Admission to Park: free
Information and Trip Leader:Randall Adkins, cell 205/719-7719
NOVEMBER 18, SATURDAY, 8:30a.m.
Southeastern Outings Leisurely Weekday Hike
Where: : Cahaba Riverchase Greenway Loop and Extension Trails located between the Riverchase Galleria Shopping Mall and AL Highway 261 in Pelham.
Details: You are invited to participate in an easy and leisurely-paced, fun Southeastern Outings dayhike in a park and trails area just 2/10 miles south of where Lorna Road/Old Montgomery Highway (the same road with two names) crosses the Cahaba River. The smooth park trails are wide and relatively level.
The walking pace for this hike will be moderately easy. We’ll stop often to catch our breath and note flowers, trees, birdsongs and the trail and woods around us.
Please bring plenty of water with you. Wear good walking shoes or boots. Please dress appropriately for the weather.
Note that Southeastern Outings has never had a group hike in this area before now. So please come out to see and experience what the park looks like! Total hike distance is about 2 miles.
No motorized vehicles are allowed on the trail! This outing should be lots of fun for everyone.
Potties are located at the park parking lot.
Optional restaurant lunch after the hike.
Please meet in the Cahaba Greenway Trail at Riverchase Trailhead parking lot, 1930 Old Montgomery Highway, Hoover, AL at 10:00 a.m. We plan to start our hike from there at 10:15 a.m.
Information and Trip Leader: Caroline Boone, 205-567-8389
NOVEMBER 21, WEDNESDAY, 9:45 a.m.
Southeastern Outings 10.6-Mile Bicycle Ride
Where: : Chief Ladiga Trail, Piedmont, Alabama
Details: Join friendly folks for a 10.6-mile bicycle ride on the Chief Ladiga Trail in the Piedmont, Alabama area. Ride on Alabama’s first extended rails-to-trails conversion route on an old railroad right of way. The trail we’ll be riding on is smooth, 8-10 feet wide and even paved. There are no hills on this trail. The trail is suitable for road bikes plus mountain, hybrid and urban bicycles. Ride through towns, fields and picturesque woodlands. No motorized vehicles are allowed on your trail!
Bicycle helmets are required and must be worn. Please bring a picnic lunch and drink.
The pace of this bicycle ride will be leisurely. From time to time we will stop bicycling just to enjoy the scenery and views from the four bridges over the creeks. However, please note that this ride is 10.6 miles long. We recommend that participants intending to come on this outing have bicycled at least a few times during the 30 days prior to November 21. In order to be assured that you can ride comfortably on this trip you should probably be able to ride at an average speed of 8-12 miles per hour on level terrain.
There will be an optional restaurant dinner after the bicycle ride. You will have an opportunity to wash up and change clothes in the Eubanks Welcome Center restrooms after the bicycle ride. If you’d like to clean up and/or change clothes, please bring your soap and towel and/or change of clothes with you.
Please meet 9:45 a.m. at the Applebee’s Restaurant in Trussville. We plan to depart from there at 10:00 a.m. or meet 11:20 a.m. at the Eubanks Welcome Center, the yellow house where Dailey Street crosses the Chief Ladiga Trail in Piedmont.
Reservations Required: If you want to come on this bicycle ride, please make a reservation with Dan Frederick, email southeasternoutings@gmail.com or phone 205-631-4680.
Also, if you have a bike rack which can hold more than one bicycle, please bring it with you to Piedmont in order to facilitate the required car shuttle and advise Dan that you are doing so. We probably need to leave about two vehicles at the Eubanks Welcome Center in order to transport the drivers of all the remaining vehicles from the end point of the ride back to the start point to pick up their vehicles after the ride is concluded.
Information and Trip Leader: Dan Frederick, email southeasternoutings@gmail.com, landline 205/631-4680
Plus Nov. 29.Events for December, 2026 will include:
- DECEMBER 19, SATURDAY: Details to be announced
- DECEMBER 26, SATURDAY: Afternoon Dayhike at Vulcan Trail in Birmingham
