Big Spring Park (Huntsville, Alabama)

Big Spring International Park (also known as Big Spring Park) is a large park located in downtown Huntsville, Alabama. The park was built around its namesake "Big Spring", the original water source that the city of Huntsville was built around. The Huntsville Museum of Art and Von Braun Center are located in the park. The park is also notable as the venue for the Panoply Arts Festival, held the last full weekend in April, Big Spring Jam, an annual music festival held on the fourth weekend in September from 1993 to 2011, and The Battle of the Buffalo, a buffalo wings competition held by the University of Alabama in Huntsville Alpha Tau Omega fraternity to support cancer research.

Big Spring
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Big Spring Park
LocationW. Side Sq., Huntsville, Alabama
Coordinates34°43′47″N 86°35′9″W
Area12.5 acres (5.1 ha) (park)
MPSDowntown Huntsville MRA
NRHP reference No.80000704
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1980

Big Spring Park is the expected trail head of the future Singing River Trail of North Alabama. A 70-mile bicycling and walking trail, it will connect Huntsville to Madison, Decatur, and Athens with an extended path along the Tennessee River.

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