Fairhope Nature Preserve
Fairhope Nature Preserve is a natural park featuring a large pond with walking trails and opportunities for fishing. The park is dog-friendly and includes picnic tables, some covered, and barbecue grills. It is a peaceful spot rich with wildlife such as various birds, deer, and occasionally foxes. The trails are natural and not paved, with some sections overgrown and less maintained. The park has wheelchair accessible parking and is considered kid-friendly, offering a nature escape for visitors. However, it lacks trail maintenance and some amenities are outdated or missing.
Reviews
Not well cared for. Trails are poorly marked. Lots of garbage. I picked up for a while
Big pond you can walk completely around and there are (not paved) walking paths as well.
This park is pretty decent. They’re a few areas with picnic tables to eat, and one of the areas is covered. The map there needs to be updated. The one parking area by W Main Street is no longer there, it’s now a trailer park area. The Trails aren’t really kept up with being clean or mowed. I’ve seen others enjoy fishing out of the main pond.
A nice little trail, though definitely not as nice as some of the other ones in the area. Seems more like a quiet spot to fish than a trail to walk though as the trails aren’t kept up the best.
I feel in love with this place in less than 1 week, started coming 1 year ago to get away and be in nature, this is the best place to be. There are many different songbirds, deer, geese, ducks, herons, hawks, eagles, and in the spring I saw 2 fox running around the little off trails. You can fish here, picnic tables to eat or relax at. Many people only know this area because of the Mountain Lion sightings on the news. I love this place so much and the nature here I have watched the gosling grow up and fly south. Some trails have gotten a little overgrown, Another note if your gonna come PLEASE AND I MEAN PLEASE THROW UR TRASH IN THE GARBAGE CANS, PEOPLE WHO DONT RUIN EVERYTHING GOOD!!