Healthy Mile Trails are one-mile loops marked by the image of a walker in permanent yellow paint on neighborhood sidewalks. Some trails may have permanent green paint as we update the Healthy Mile Trail logo colors.

The Partnership for a Healthy Durham first created these walking trails because residents identified their neighborhoods as the top places where they exercise in the 2014 and 2017 Community Health Assessments.

The first Healthy Mile Trail was created in 2012 in partnership with the  Historic Stokesdale community near the Lincoln Community Health Center. Since 2012, five other Healthy Mile Trails have been established near the Holton Career and Resource Center, McDougald Terrace, Old North Durham Park, Ridgefield neighborhood and Hillside Park.

Current Healthy Mile Trail partners include the American Heart Association, Bull City United, City of Durham, Durham County Department of Public Health, Durham Housing Authority, Durham Parks and Recreation, DCI, Historic Stokesdale Community, Keep Durham Beautiful, Lincoln Community Health Center and North Carolina Central University.