Oxmoor Road

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Oxmoor Road is an approximately three and three-quarters mile long street running roughly northeast-southwest through Homewood between Independence Drive (U.S. Highway 31) and West Oxmoor Road. It is actually part of a road dating back to at least the 1900s which connected Irondale with Oxmoor, hence its name.

Oxmoor Road is one of the primay east-west roads through Homewood, although the majority of it, except for some left turn lanes at select intersections, is two-lane road. Oxmoor is a five-lane road between Columbiana Road and West Oxmoor Boulevard (near Green Springs Highway and Interstate 65) and between West Oxmoor Boulevard and West Oxmoor Road. At its western end, Oxmoor Road becomes West Oxmoor Road, while the eastern end becomes Hollywood Boulevard.

During the late 20th century, two bypasses were created along Oxmoor Road. First, during the 1970s, West Oxmoor Boulevard was built north of Oxmoor Road to provide light industry that appeared on West Oxmoor Road a multi-lane route to I-65 and avoid a residential area. Oxmoor Road intersects both ends of West Oxmoor Boulevard. Second, during the late 1980s, Palisades Boulevard and Palisades Drive routed traffic through the Palisades shopping center to Green Springs Highway. In this case, direct access into the residential section along Oxmoor was cut off as Oxmoor feeds directly into the two Palisades roads.

Just south of the Palisades, Oxmoor Road is on the Birmingham-Homewood border. Between West Oxmoor Boulevard and West Oxmoor Road, portions of Oxmoor Road are fully in Birmingham while others are again along the Birmingham-Homewood border.

Notable locations

From west to east.

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