ALABAMA - USA Travel Guide | Around The World
Alabama is a state in the Southern United States of America. The state is named after the Alabama tribe, a Native American people who originally lived at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers. Alabama is known for its scenic beauty, and has a lot to offer those who enjoy the great outdoors. Although Alabama is welcoming, it is not a family destination. Leave the kids at home.
Cities :
Montgomery - state capital and first capital of the Confederacy
Auburn - home of Auburn University
Birmingham - Alabama's largest city
Decatur
Dothan - largest city in Southeast Alabama
Huntsville - home of Marshall Space Flight Center
Mobile - Alabama's only major port and largest city near the Gulf
Tuscaloosa - home of the University of Alabama
Tuscumbia - Helen Keller's home
Other destinations :
Gulf Shores & Orange Beach - 32 miles of beautiful sugar white sands on the prettiest beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. A visit to Gulf Shores and Orange Beach offers the perfect balance of non-stop activity and lay-around-doing-nothing time. Putter around a bit on one of our championship golf courses. Cast your line for deep-sea adventure on a one of the Orange Beach fishing charters. Travel back in history with a visit to Fort Morgan, the site of the Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay. Commune with Mother Nature as you hike wildlife trails gazing at shorebirds.
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park - In the spring of 1814, General Andrew Jackson and an army of 3,300 men attacked 1,000 Upper Creek warriors on the Tallapoosa River. Over 800 Upper Creeks died defending their homeland.
Little River Canyon National Preserve - Little River is unique because it flows for most of its length atop Lookout Mountain in northeast Alabama
Natchez Trace Parkway - The 444-mile Natchez Trace Parkway commemorates an ancient trail that connected southern portions of the Mississippi River, through Alabama, to salt licks in today's central Tennessee
Russell Cave National Monument - For more than 10,000 years, Russell Cave was home to prehistoric peoples. Russell Cave provides clues to the daily lifeways of early North American inhabitants dating from 6500 B.C. to 1650 A.D.
Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail - The Selma to Montgomery National Voting Rights Trail was established by Congress in 1996 to commemorate the events, people, and route of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail - Come on a journey to remember and commemorate the survival of the Cherokee people despite their forced removal from their homelands in the Southeastern United States in the 1840s
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site - In the 1940's Tuskegee, Alabama became home to a military experiment to train America's first African-American military pilots. In time the experiment became known as the Tuskegee Experience and the participants as the Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site - Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site is nestled on the campus of historic Tuskegee University. The site includes the George W. Carver Museum and The Oaks, home of Booker T. Washington
Desoto Caverns-A cavern and small family attraction in Childersburg, Alabama.
Fort Payne-Home to the Alabama Band, (recently on a new tour). Near Desoto State Park, Little River Canyon, numerous caves, rivers, hunting,and fishing.
The largest airport in Alabama is the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport IATA: BHM. Airlines servicing this airport offer direct flights to Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, St. Louis, and Tampa.
Commercial flights are also available at the Huntsville International Airport IATA: HSV; the Mobile Regional Airport IATA: MOB; and the Montgomery Regional Airport IATA: MGM .
USA Great Outdoors: Southern States
Join our traveler Spencer as he explores the culturally rich regions of the great American South!
Parks Featured:
Little River Canyon National Preserve- Alabama
Devils Fork State Park- South Carolina
Mammoth Cave National Park- Kentucky
Providence Canyon State Park- Georgia
To learn more about these and other spectacular U.S. national parks, visit:
Visiting Little River Canyon National Preserve, National Park in Alabama, United States
Visiting Little River Canyon National Preserve, National Park in Alabama, United States.
Little River Canyon,
kayaking little river canyon,
little river canyon images,
little river canyon climbing guide,
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Please watch: Visiting Gilcrease Museum, Art Museum in Tulsa, OKlahoma, United States
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Visiting Mount Cheaha State Park
I made a trip to North Alabama to visit Mount Cheaha State Park. Highest point in the state of Alabama.Had a good meal at the Cliffside restaurant. It was a fun day!
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Birmingham - Alabama USA
Imagens da Cidade de Birmingham - Alabama
*City of Birmingham - Alabama
Birmingham é a maior cidade do estado americano do Alabama. A cidade, fundada em 1871, foi palco de violentos conflitos raciais durante a década de 1960.
Segundo o censo nacional de 2010, a sua população é de 212 237 habitantes, com 1,2 milhão de habitantes em sua região metropolitana. A cidade possui cerca de 108 981 residências, que resultam em uma densidade de 288,07 residências/km².
Imagens: LSyd
DEEP SOUTH USA || Trek America's #iTrekHere in Alabama & Tennessee || Travel Vlog
A road trip across the Deep South USA with Trek America on their Deep South BLT tour! Part one covers the start of the tour in New Orleans, travelling through Birmingham and Fort Payne in Alabama and drinking too much moonshine Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Stay tuned for more videos from this tour, including Memphis, Nashville and more New Orleans action!
LINKS
More info on the Trek America tour:
Read about the trip in full on the blog:
Alabama Travel: (Birmingham & Fort Payne)
Visit Tennessee: (Gatlinburg)
British Airways:
Little River Canyon near Fort Payne, AL
Our visit to Little River Canyon
Little River Falls-Fort Payne, Alabama 2016
Little River Falls-Fort Payne, Alabama 2016
Alabama Tourism Brings New Yorkers to Little River Canyon
There was a lot more green in the city when Alabama Tourism decided to take New Yorkers to Little River Canyon! Reaching 20 feet, a mountain was constructed in --- for people to climb and experience a 360 degree view of the canyon using VR goggles.
Welcome to Selma, Alabama
Selma, which is one of Alabama’s oldest cities, takes great pride in its heritage. Markers and monuments dot the landscape and visitors holding a wide array of historical interests come to visit the old city. At Selma, you’ll find the largest historic district in Alabama – with over 1,200 historic structures which include beautiful churches, antebellum and Victorian homes, and landmarks associated with both the nation’s Voting Rights Movement and the Battle of Selma. This video shows some of the historic sites that you will find in Selma.
CREDITS:
Video Provided By: RuralSWAlabama.org
Music: Beethoven Fur Elise by Bobby Cole (AudioBlocks)