Woodstock GA Trails in Fall 2026: What's Open and Coming Next

Start on the Noonday Creek Trail at Market Street downtown and head south. You'll cross the bridge over Noonday Creek to Woofstock Dog Park, and soon after that the trail ends at Highway 92. Cobb County has its own Noonday Creek Trail on the other side. It runs seven miles from the Bells Ferry Road trailhead to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, WSB-TV reported. A 1.5-mile gap separates the two trails, and it has been under construction since January 2024.

Most of Woodstock's Greenprints system already exists as separate trails. The city is now building the pieces that link them. The link that runs through a creek bottom has been the hardest to finish on schedule. If you're planning fall weekends on foot or by bike, use the trails that are open now and treat every connector date as a target.

The trail to Cobb has missed three target dates

The city says the Noonday Creek Trail Extension will run a mile and a half from the trailhead near Reformation Brewery and Elm Street Green to Noonday Creek Park in Cobb County. Crews started at Noonday Park on Shallowford Road and are building north, under Highway 92, to meet Woodstock's trail. The contract is $8,480,255.95, which is the largest contract sum on the city's August list of projects under construction.

The target date has moved three times:

The city has explained the delays. "Much of the project site is in a low-lying area, so not only do we experience delays during rainfall events, but we also face prolonged site challenges even after the rain has subsided," Chris Luly, the city's Capital Improvement Plan administrator, told WSB-TV in June 2025. The trail follows the creek, and the ground along the creek stays wet long after a storm.

The September target has passed. When the city council met on September 28, the capital projects report it received was still the August edition. Before you plan a ride to Cobb, check the city's Greenprints Trail System page for an opening notice. Over the long term, the extension matters for more than the trip to Kennesaw. The city says Cobb's network from Noonday Creek Park is expected to connect to the Silver Comet Trail, which runs to the Georgia-Alabama state line.

What already works, trail by trail

The trails below are open and finished, and none of their surfaces depends on a contractor's schedule.

• Noonday Creek Trail, downtown. You can get on at Market Street or at Woofstock Dog Park. The run from downtown to Highway 92 includes the bridge over Noonday Creek. The downtown end starts at Woodstock Arts, behind Reformation Brewery.
• Towne Lake Pass. This 1.94-mile trail starts at Towne Lake Parkway, runs along Towne Lake Hills South, goes into the woods, and follows the Noonday Creek corridor under I-575 to Woofstock Dog Park. That makes it the longest finished connector in the system.
• Rubes Creek Trail. A 0.70-mile concrete path runs south from Arnold Mill Road, near Fire Station 14, toward Springfield Road. The city plans to make it part of a future Downtown Loop.
• Trestle Rock Trail at Olde Rope Mill Park. This was the first Greenprints segment to open. It's about 0.4 miles, nearly flat, and runs along the Little River past the ruins of the old rope mill's water diversion chute.
• Taylor Randahl Memorial Mountain Bike Trails. Olde Rope Mill Park has three singletrack trails totaling 14 miles, from advanced cross-country to smooth flow lines. They're built for mountain bikes, and hikers and runners are welcome too.
• Dupree Park Family Mountain Bike Trails. The trail tread here is wide and smooth, and there's a short bike skills trail. The city describes these trails as a good fit for kids and new riders.

Downtown already has one linked route. Noonday Creek Trail, the dog park bridge and Towne Lake Pass run together from Market Street to Towne Lake Parkway. Rubes Creek is still separate from it, and so are Olde Rope Mill Park and Dupree Park. The city's next projects are meant to close those gaps.

The next links are shorter, and they run along roads

The city council has awarded two trail contracts to DAF Concrete, the Cherokee Tribune & Ledger-News reported.

The first is an eight-foot multi-use trail on Rope Mill Road, running from Inwood Walk north to a point across from Camelia Place. In its August report, the city said this project would complete the trail connection to Woodstock Parkway.

The second is a 10-foot trail from Dupree Road to the Noonday Creek Trail. The city's August capital projects report says it will create "an official connection to the Noonday Creek trail from the new trail on Dupree Road near the bridge."

Both projects were at 0% in August, before they went to bid. Neither has a public completion date yet. Both are road-edge projects, though, and they don't have the low-lying creek site that slowed the Noonday extension. A larger project, Connect the Creeks, would add a greenway loop between the Noonday Creek and Rubes Creek trails and several smaller connector paths.

Little River Park moved to spring

Little River Park is the city's biggest outdoor project. It covers 110 acres, will double the city's greenspace, and is funded by the 2023 Trails & Parks Bond. A March 2026 tourism release said the city hoped to finish the park in fall 2026. The city's Little River Park page now gives an estimated completion of spring 2027.

The September update shows work moving forward. Crews from contractor ICAN poured the concrete trail from the boardwalk to the upper parking lot at Trickum Road, poured the trail from the boardwalk to the pond, and started installing the fishing platform. They also began final grading on the open-space field circles in the Woodlands zone.

When the park opens, it will add about 1.75 miles of concrete and boardwalk trail along the Little River, with pedestrian bridges between its zones. The plan also includes a pond with fishing and paddle-craft platforms, large and small dog parks, and a trailhead with restrooms and parking in the Woodlands zone. A water trail on the Little River will connect toward Olde Rope Mill Park. That will link the city's new largest park with its long-established mountain-biking park by water. The main entrance will be on Trickum Road, where a roundabout is being built as part of the project. Until then, it remains an active construction site.

One fall date that is set: November 7 at Olde Rope Mill Park

Mountain Goat Adventures holds the Rope Mill Dirty Duathlon and 3.3 Mile Trail Run on Saturday, November 7, 2026, at Olde Rope Mill Park. The trail run starts at 8:58 a.m. and the duathlon at 9:00 a.m.

• Registration: Entries close Thursday, November 5, at 5 p.m., or sooner if the event sells out. There's no race-day registration, and the field is limited to 325 racers in total.
• Early packet pickup: Thursday, November 5, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Fleet Feet Canton, 1431 Riverstone Parkway, for anyone registered by November 4.
• Parking: Racers park in the small lot on the left as you enter the park, the auxiliary lot at the top of the hill on Rope Mill Road, or the Kirk-Rudy office building at Rope Mill Road and Ridgewalk Parkway. The organizer says the walk or ride down to the transition area can be up to half a mile.

If you aren't racing, keep the trail schedule in mind. That Saturday morning, the Taylor Randahl trails and the parking along Rope Mill Road will be shared with up to 325 racers. The downtown route from Market Street to Towne Lake Parkway is a good option that morning.

We follow these trail projects because they shape the weekends of everyone who lives near them. If you'd like to know which streets are closest to the trails that are open now or still being built, John & Renee Pruitt would be glad to share what we know. Let's Connect.