Montgomery Highway

Montgomery Highway is an older name for what is now called Highway 31 as it leads south from Birmingham through Homewood, Vestavia Hills, Hoover, Pelham and Alabaster toward Montgomery.

Some cities along Montgomery Highway have given new names to the highway within their city limits (see "Alternate Names" in the Highway 31 article), but the cities of Vestavia Hills, Hoover, and Calera still use the Montgomery Highway name.

Old Montgomery Highway

There are discontinuous sections of road named Old Montgomery Highway that were originally part of Montgomery Highway, but are no longer due to highway improvements and reroutings. Two sections in the Birmingham District that go by this name:

• In Homewood, branching off of Independence Drive to the east across from Saulter Road. It travels southeast, then turns southwest to cross Independence Drive. It then goes south, crossing Lakeshore Drive and winds up Shades Mountain to the top, rejoining Montgomery Highway.
• In Hoover, the previous route for Montgomery Highway branches off of Highway 31 as Lorna Road just south of where I-65 crosses over Highway 31. It continues south to the east of Highway 31 over I-459 and then curves west, crossing Montgomery Highway at the Riverchase Galleria. It then winds south, changing names from Lorna Road to Old Montgomery Highway, crossing Helena Road before rejoining Highway 31 at a segment named Pelham Parkway.