Wilson Lake

Wilson Lake is a reservoir in Jefferson, Alabama. Wilson Lake is situated nearby to the neighborhood Chestnut Ridge, as well as near Rocky Ridge Manor.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aldridge Botanical Gardens.

Aldridge Botanical Gardens

Park

Photo: Joshua Crauswell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Aldridge Gardens is a 30-acre lake with walking trails. Public lectures and educational activities are scheduled throughout the year.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hoover and Indian Springs Village.

Hoover is a city in the Birmingham urban area in Metropolitan Alabama, south of central Birmingham. While most nearby attractions in the area are in the city of Birmingham, Hoover is an important shopping/retail area.

Indian Springs Village

Village

Indian Springs Village is a town in Shelby County, Alabama, United States, in the Birmingham metropolitan area. It incorporated effective November 14, 1990.

Vestavia Hills

Town

Photo: Stphelan, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Vestavia Hills, colloquially known simply as Vestavia, is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties, Alabama, United States. The population was 39,102 as of the 2020 census, and was estimated at 38,306 in 2025, making it is the third-largest city in Jefferson County, after Birmingham and Hoover, and making it is the fourteenth-largest city in Alabama.

Wilson Lake

Type: Reservoir
Category: body of water
Location: Jefferson, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.40094° or 33° 24′ 3″ north

Longitude

-86.77193° or 86° 46′ 19″ west

Elevation

472 feet (144 metres)

Open location code

865MC62H+96

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358931794

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=reservoir

GeoNames ID

4098069

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