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American Tobacco Trail (Miles 0-6), Durham, NC
This segment of the trail starts just south of downtown Durham and stops a little north of Route 54 in south Durham. See the live map below to locate Mile 1 and navigate southward. Click on "See Larger Map."
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| A view from the trail to a Woodcroft neighborhood, 11/22/10. | Cherry tree, on a front yard, 2/15/19 |
Miles 0-1.25, 2/18/26
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| Persian Speedwell | Blue Jay | Same Blue Jay | Song Sparrow | Male Northern Cardinal |
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| Male Eastern Towhee | Purple Dead-nettle | Gourd birdhouse | Persian Speedwells |
Miles 0-1.25, NC 8/27/25
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| Purple Passionflower | Purple Passionflower | Paraguayan Purslane (Portulaca amilis), close up | Paraguayan Purslane (Portulaca amilis) |
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| Downtown Durham: south edge | Variegated Fritillary | Variegated Fritillary | Variegated Fritillary | Japanese Hop (Humulus japonicus) |
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| American Burnweed | Common Wingstem | Kudzu flower | Yellow Sweet Clover |
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| Kudzu flower | Female Eastern Towhee | Asiatic Dayflower |
Miles ~7-5, 3/23/24
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| Winged Elm seedpods | More Winged Elm seedpods | Field Madder | Wisteria | More wisteria |
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| Classic Durham sight | Flowering Dogwood | More Flowering Dogwood | Ornamental plum tree |
0-1.25 miles, 3/7/24
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| Peach Tree flower (Prunus persica) | Peach Tree flower (Prunus persica) | Ivyleaf Speedwells | Tachinid fly (Gonia frontosa) |
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| Mystery tree with fruits? | Camellia | Small Peach Tree (Prunus persica) | Wintergreen Barberry (Berberis julianae) | The neighborhood |
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| Northern Mockingbird | Mystery tree with fruits? | Field Pansy |
Miles 0 - 1.75, 2/3/20
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| Chipping Sparrow | Another Chipping Sparrow | Downy Woodpecker | Male Eastern Bluebird | Henbit |
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| Male House Sparrow | Male House Sparrows | Persian Speedwell | Purple Dead-nettle | Song Sparrow |
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| Song Sparrow | Tree flowers and buds |
Miles 0-2 1/12/20
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| Blue Jay | Another Blue Jay | Common Chickweed | Persian Speedwell |
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| Persian Speedwells | Red-shouldered Hawk | American Robin | Song Sparrow | Same Song Sparrow |
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| Upland Chorus Frog, with apparent leg injury, rescued from trail. | Same Upland Chorus Frog | Same Upland Chorus Frog |
Miles 6-4 Durham, NC 2/15/19
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| Male Eastern Towhee w/ berry | Same male Eastern Towhee w/ pine cone part | Persian Speedwells | Callery Pear (maybe Bradford cultivar, but growing wild) |
Miles 6-4 8/8/14
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| Passionflower | Partridge Pea | Bee on St. Andrew's Cross | Seedbox | Mushroom |
Miles 6-4 8/7/14
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| Rove beetle | Feather |
Miles 6-4 11/5/11
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| Flower fly (Spilomyia longicornis) | Red Maple | Maple leaf |
Miles 6-4 11/22/10
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| Jumping plant louse (Psyllidae family, Psylloidea superfamily, Sternorrhyncha suborder, Hemiptera order) | Same jumping plant louse, about to fly. It was about 2 mm long. | Wildflower |
Miles 4-6 6/24/10
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| Late-instar leaffooted bug nymph | Queen Anne's Lace buds | Female Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle | Flatid planthoppers | Common Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium) |
Miles 4-6 6/21/10
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| Bess Beetle | Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum) | Scuppernong grapes |
5/10/10
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| Ground sac spider (Castaneira longipalpa) | Part of a "rainbow" around the sun |
Miles 0-2 9/11/09
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| Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) | Paraguayan Purslane (Portulaca amilis) | Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) | Asian Dayflower | Kudzu |
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| Horse fly | Leaffooted Bug | Red Morning Glory (Ipomoea coccinea) |
Miles 0-2 8/25/09
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| Paraguayan Purslane (Portulaca oleracea). | Kudzu flowers (and lots of buds) | Kudzu flowers | Kudzu flowers and buds on the ground | Blooming kudzu plants |
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| Monarch | Female Sachem | Crossline Skipper | Silver-spotted Skipper |
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| Morning glory with caterpillar | Ragweed flowers | Pokeweed | Porcelain Berries | Bitter Sneezeweed |
Miles 4-6 4/13/09
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| March fly | Blister beetle (Lytta aenea) | March fly | Sassafras flowers | American Wisteria |
Miles 4-6 2/26/09
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| Golden Net-winged Beetle (Dictyopterus aurora), Mile 5 |
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Live Map of the beginning of the American Tobacco Trail