The 9-mile Maryville-Alcoa Greenway connects Springbrook Park in Alcoa with the Bicentennial Greenbelt and Sandy Springs Park in Maryville. The greenway starts near the swimming pool in Alcoa's Springbrook Park, passes the schools, crosses Springbrook Road near Edison Road then follows Pistol Creek to Maryville.
Where the cities meet, Mile 0 begins on the greenway. From that point north through Alcoa is 5 miles; south the greenway is 4 miles to and around Maryville.
The greenway includes loops through the parks through which it passes, except for Sandy Springs, and offers links to shopping districts, businesses, nature areas, fitness stations and picnic pavilions.
There are numerous access points to the Maryville-Alcoa Greenway, including Maryville's parks: Sandy Spring, Pearsons Spring, Founders and Greenbelt. In Alcoa, access the greenbelt from Richard Williams Park and Hall and Springbrook parks.
For more information on where to park, view the
local map (http://www.knoxtrans.org/plans/bikeprog/cc_maps/blount2.pdf).
Beautiful, fun trail with rolling small hills easily climbed and fun downside. Nicely paved. Wife and I rode from the playground in Maryville to Alcoa Elementary and back. Not a sleeper trail, it had quick turns and many side trails. Most signage was ...
We biked the Maryville-Alcoa Greenway trail on a spring Friday afternoon (March 2010). It was not a trail we would bike again. Signage and maps are both poor. There are many small paths leading from/to the main trail, and non are marked as such. Very ...