Maxwell Loop Road starts off promisingly enough at AL Highway 69 just past the new Shelton State Community College. As it crosses the old highway (now a county road called Old Greensboro) and passes Englewood Elementary School, you get into an area of tremendous residential growth ovee the last eight years or so.
Just a couple of miles past the school and new subdivisions, however, the road falls into dramatic disrepair. The pavement ends as you reach the railroad tracks which parallel the highway route and a small stream passes OVER the roadbed and under the tracks. When I first toured the road, maybe around 1998, the county had closed it off with a gate just beyond the tracks. Now, in 2003, the gate is gone and a few areas of the route have been improved, with loads of chunky coal dropped into the larger potholes (small ponds, really) and lower areas more prone to flooding filled in. |
