Chickasabogue Park to Reopen with a Community Celebration

Posted on: Feb 5th, 2025 | News and Announcements featured news Press Releases

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. – The Mobile County Commission will reopen Chickasabogue Park on Sunday, Feb. 23, with a community celebration from 2 to 4 p.m.

The celebration will include a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony, music, facepainting, food trucks, lawn games, and more at Chickasabogue Park (760 Aldock Road, Eight Mile, AL 36613).

Visitors can expect to see:

all-new day-use area with ample parking
- new playground
- new splashpad
- improved courts (multiuse: basketball, pickleball, tennis)
- new restroom facility
- new pavilion
an upgraded disc golf course
improved hiking/biking trails

Once the park reopens, only areas undergoing active construction or areas posing safety concerns will be closed.

Park hours will be 8 a.m. to dusk.

Chickasabogue Park is an 1,100-acre outdoor recreation facility and wildlife refuge that is less than 15 minutes from downtown Mobile. It is Mobile County Commission’s largest park. Chickasabogue Park provides a wide variety of outdoor activities in a natural setting while protecting the environment and preserving the diversity of indigenous plants and animals.

Chickasabogue Park was closed in January 2022 for construction and renovation as part of Mobile County’s Parks Initiative. Much of the work at Chickasabogue Park was park-wide utilities and infrastructure improvements, such as underground utilities, including water/sewer and necessary lift station, fire hydrants, fire mains, which required the whole park be closed for public safety. There were multiple sources of delay, such as supply chain delays and increases in materials costs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, which made it difficult to award bids and some redesign/replanning was necessary.

The RV campground is currently under construction. The existing boat launch will remain closed for safety reasons. Mobile County expects to begin renovation of the beach area and the construction of a new boat ramp later in 2025. The master plan for Chickasabogue Park includes an events and interpretive center and many other improvements yet to come.

Chickasabogue Park improvements thus far have been possible through funding generated by the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) of 2006 (offshore oil drilling). Part of the local conservation plan for GOMESA funds is to increase public access to shoreline recreational areas, such as along the Chickasabogue Creek, which connects to Mobile Bay.