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Parks & Recreation

Parks and Recreation encompasses a wide range of activities with many excellent recreational opportunities offered throughout the City of Valley. There's the  Valley Community Center, a 54,000 sq.ft., state-of-the-art recreational facility located at 130 Sportsplex Drive  and there's the Sportsplex. Many people confuse the Community Center and the Sportsplex, but they are different facilities. Part of the City of Valley Community Center Complex, the Sportsplex is surrounded by 5 multi-use atheletic fields and is located just past the Community Center. 

The Community Center is not the only recreational opportunity in Valley:

  • 7 mile walking/biking trail (Rails-to-Trails) made from the railbed of the Chattahoochee Valley Railroad Co
  • Parks and ball fields located in the Langdale, Shawmut, Riverview, and Fairfax communities
  • The Chattahoochee River
    • great fishing
    • canoeing and kayaking
    • swimming,
    • beautiful scenery to enjoy.

For more information call (334) 756-5290. 

contact:

Parks & Recreation Department Head:  E-Mail: Suellen Snowden  
                                                                          Phone: (334) 756-5281

Announcements

Scheduling/management of city rental properties and facilities

Special Events Coordinator Sheila Still is responsible for scheduling the use of the following City properties and facilities:

  • Shawmut Kindergarten
  • Riverview School Cafeteria
  • Concession  Stands Rentals

This will also effect future properties, such as the new amphitheater or the Shawmut Airport property, that may later be determined to be available for rent. This does not include the lease/rental of the City's mill properties, which are handled by Jim Jones, Executive Director of the Community Development Corporation.

Ms. Still may be reached at (334) 756-5282 or (706) 518-7213. Mr. Jones may be reached at (334) 756-5273.

Rails-To-Trails

The Rails-To-Trails is a 7 mile walking, jogging, and biking trail that was built on top of the railbed of the old Chattahoochee Vally Railroad. It stretches from the Shawmut Mill Village to the Riverview Mill Village and passes the majority of the 18 historic landmarks in the city. Read about it at the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy. Also, read an interview with Councilman Jim Jones by the/Managing Editor of Rails To Trails.

Valley is continuing to improve the Rails-To-Trails. We received ADECA Grants from the Recreational Trails Program for 'development and maintenance adding amenities'.

  • Two parking lots have been added in the Riverview Community to allow access to the trail and landscape lighting has been added to the Horace King Memorial Covered Bridge that spans Moore's Creek in the Langdale Community. 
  • Trail signage will be installed in the latter part of 2009

Rails-To-Trails Brochure (pdf) 

News

SPRING SPORTS REGISTRATION (read more)

Begins February 8th - Ends March 9th

Registration Forms: