Upcoming Activities
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
NOVEMBER 29, SUNDAY, 1:45 p.m.
Southeastern Outings Easy Walk
Where: : Vulcan Trail inside the City Limits of Birmingham
Details: Enjoy an easy walk in the woodlands overlooking Birmingham on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The trail is level, as it is on an old mining railroad right of way just below the crest of Red Mountain. This walk is an ideal activity for those Thanksgiving guests who have been in your house for several days and with whom you are looking for something to do to get them out of the house. A previous walk on this trail drew one of the highest number of participants, 67, on any outing SEO has ever sponsored. Don’t miss it!
Please meet at 1:45 45 p.m. in the Vulcan Park and Museum Parking Lot where you would normally park to visit the statue and Vulcan Park. We plan to depart from there at 2:00 p.m. We will walk from the big parking lot a short distance down some new stairs to the trail head and then on the trail to Green Springs Highway and back. The formerly unpaved section of the Vulcan Trail has recently been widened and resurfaced.
There is no charge to participate in this hike and there is no charge for admission to either Vulcan Park or the trail.
Well-behaved, carefully supervised children age 7 and older able to walk 4 miles are welcome. After the walk is completed, there will be an optional dinner at Jim 'N Nick's 11th Avenue Grill at Five Points South.
Share an adventure. Bring a friend or friends.
Information and Trip Leader: Dan Frederick, email southeasternoutings@gmail.com, landline 205/631-4680
Events for December, 2026 will include:
- DECEMBER 19, SATURDAY: Details to be announced
- DECEMBER 26, SATURDAY: Afternoon Dayhike at Vulcan Trail in Birmingham
