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The Best Attractions In Alabama Mountain Lakes

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The Best Attractions In Alabama Mountain Lakes

  • 2. Little River Canyon National Preserve Fort Payne
    Little River Canyon National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located on top of Lookout Mountain near Fort Payne, Alabama, and DeSoto State Park. Created by an Act of Congress in 1992, the 15,288-acre preserve protects what is sometimes said to be the nation's longest mountaintop river, the Little River. The canyon was historically called May's Gulf, gulf being a common term throughout the Cumberland Plateau for this sort of feature. Prior to being assigned to the National Park Service, the canyon area formed the southmost unit of Alabama's DeSoto State Park.
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  • 3. Huntsville Botanical Garden Huntsville
    Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County and south into Morgan County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 census. Huntsville is the third-largest city in Alabama and the largest city in the five-county Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville, AL Combined Statistical Area, which at the 2013 census estimate had a total population of 683,871. The Huntsville Metropolitan Area's population was 417,593 in 2010 to become the 2nd largest in Alabama. Huntsville metro's population reached 441,000 by 2014.It grew across nearby hills north of the Tennessee River, adding textile mills, then munitions factories, NASA's Marshall Spa...
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  • 4. U.S. Space and Rocket Center Huntsville
    The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama is a museum operated by the government of Alabama, showcasing rockets, achievements, and artifacts of the U.S. space program. Sometimes billed as Earth's largest space museum, astronaut Owen Garriott described the place as, a great way to learn about space in a town that has embraced the space program from the very beginning.Opened in 1970, just after the second manned mission to the lunar surface, the center not only showcases Apollo Program hardware but also houses interactive science exhibits, Space Shuttle and Army rocketry and aircraft. With more than 1,500 permanent rocketry and space exploration artifacts, as well as many rotating rocketry and space-related exhibits, the center occupies land carved out of Redstone Arsenal adjacen...
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  • 6. Lake Guntersville Guntersville
    Guntersville Lake is located in north Alabama between Bridgeport and Guntersville.
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  • 7. DeSoto State Park Fort Payne
    DeSoto State Park is a public recreation area located on Lookout Mountain 8 miles northeast of Fort Payne, Alabama. The state park covers 3,502 acres of forest, rivers, waterfalls, and mountain terrain. It borders the Little River, which flows into the nearby Little River Canyon National Preserve. The 104-foot-tall DeSoto Falls, the state's highest waterfall, is found in a separate part of the park 6 miles north of the main park.
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  • 8. U.S. Veterans Memorial Museum Huntsville
    The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was an agency of the United States Department of War to direct such issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel, as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which established the Freedmen's Bureau on March 3, 1865, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. The Freedmen's Bureau was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South. The Bureau was made a part of the United States Department of War, as it was the only agency with an existing organization tha...
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  • 9. Monte Sano State Park Huntsville
    Monte Sano Mountain is a gill located in Huntsville, Alabama. The name Monte Sano is Spanish for Mountain of health. This name comes from the fact that curative health resorts used to be located on the mountain to take advantage of the fresh air, clean water, and cooler temperatures. The top is relatively flat and lies just under 500 meters above sea level. This elevation is about 300 meters higher than the floor of the Tennessee Valley, which surrounds it. A residential neighborhood occupies the western portion of the top. The eastern portion and slopes of the mountain are occupied by Monte Sano State Park. Monte Sano is connected to Round Top Mountain by a col to the south.
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  • 10. Alabama Music Hall of Fame Tuscumbia
    Tuscumbia is a city in and the county seat of Colbert County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,423. The city is part of The Shoals metropolitan area. Tuscumbia was the hometown of Helen Keller and much of the city is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Tuscumbia Historic District. The city serves as the location for the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
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  • 12. Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment Huntsville
    Lowe Mill is a former cotton mill of approximately 171,000 sq ft located southwest of downtown Huntsville, Alabama. Today the building, operated by Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment, houses the largest privately owned arts facility in the United States. With a focus on visual arts, it has been redeveloped into 148 working studios for over 200 artists and makers, 6 fine art galleries, a multi-use theater, a community maker space, and performance venues. The entire complex has never been annexed into the Huntsville City Limits . The city receives no tax revenue from the facility.
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  • 15. Big Spring Park Huntsville
    Big Spring International Park is located in downtown Huntsville, Alabama. The park is built around its namesake Big Spring, the original water source that the city of Huntsville was built around. The park is also notable as the venue for the Panoply Arts Festival, held the last full weekend in April, Big Spring Jam, an annual music festival held on the fourth weekend in September from 1993 to 2011, and The Battle of the Buffalo, a buffalo wings competition held by the UAH Alpha Tau Omega fraternity to support cancer research.
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