Travel Information for Alabama Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near an Alabama attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, an Alabama state park, this is where you will find it.
From its mountains in the north to the beaches of the Gulf Coast, ALABAMA has much to pique the interest of vacationers: the beaches, golf, abundant natural wildlife, fishing and hunting, and above all, a wealth of history to explore in Alabama. The Civil Rights Movement that started in Alabama changed the world. And then there is shopping: Alabama has world-class malls, expansive outlet centers and antiques shops.
ALABAMA's GULF COAST is renowned for its 32 miles of beaches, theme parks and playgrounds; attractions here include Waterville USA, Pirate’s Island, Dauphin Island, and Historic Blakeley State Park at Spanish Fort, site of the last major battle of the Civil War.
To take a walk along Auburn Avenue, "Sweet Auburn" In AUBURN/OPELIKA, is to take a walk through a living museum of the legendary achievements of Black Atlanta; a good spot to start in Auburn is the Museum of East Alabama; The Opelika Historic Railroad District includes the Lee County Courthouse, a working courthouse built in 1896.
Once the South's foremost industrial center, GREATER BIRMINGHAM offers a number of important attractions including the Birmingham Civil Rights District, a six-block tribute to the monumental fight for human rights, with individual attractions such as the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, which captures the spirit and drama of this achievement, and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where a bomb in 1963 killed four girls and galvanized the civil rights movement; other attractions include The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, the Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens, the city's only antebellum mansion and now a decorative arts museum, the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum, a haven for railroad buffs, and the McWane Center, a state-of-the-art science center with IMAX Dome Theater; the history of Mercedes is showcased at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Visitors Center at Vance; the Riverchase Galleria has hundreds of shops and restaurants under the world's largest skylight; also here is Alabama's Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, the Treetop Nature Trail at Oak Mountain State Park, and eight decades of aviation history at the Southern Museum of Flight.
HUNTSVILLE was the birthplace of Alabama in 1819 and is today the space capital of America; the US Space and Rocket Center, the world's largest space attraction is here; nearby, the Huntsville Botanical Garden has floral collections and woodland paths; EarlyWorks is an educational complex which includes the Alabama Constitution Village where guests are whisked back to 1819 when Alabama became the 22nd state, and the Historic Huntsville Depot, one of America's oldest remaining railroad depots; regional history is housed in Burritt on the Mountain, the mountaintop home, and at the 1819 Weeden House Museum, one of Alabama's oldest buildings; other attractions are the Huntsville Museum of Art and the Sci-Quest Science Center, the stunning vistas and mountaintop trails at Monte Sano State Park, and The Land Trust with over 2.300 acres of wildflower trails and natural springs.
MOBILE is distinguished from younger cities in Alabama by her rich Spanish, French, African and Creole heritage; the past is on display at the National African-American Archives Museum and at the 1833 Greek Revival Oakleigh Period House Museum where President Garfield sipped his first mint julep on the front gallery; other attractions are Gulf Coast Exploreum Museum of Science & IMAX Theater, USS Alabama Battleship Park which features the mighty battleship that won nine battle stars in World War II, and Wildland Expeditions in the heart of the swamp, and Mobile Bay estuary – home to more than 250 species of birds and 230 species of fish and wildlife, including alligators, black bears, bald eagles, and osprey.
From Civil War to Civil Rights, MONTGOMERY is a rich product of its past; attractions include the Alabama State Capitol where Jefferson Davis took the oath of office,19th century Old Alabama Town, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and the Rosa L. Parks Library; the "MOOseum" highlights the history of the cattle industry; the Hank Williams Memorial & Museum is located just across the street from singer Hank WIlliams’ final resting place; Jasmine Hill Gardens and Outdoor Museum, with 20 acres of year-round floral beauty and classical sculpture, is known as “Alabama’s Little Corner of Greece”; and the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum was once the home of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda; the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery is the fifth largest Shakespeare festival in the world.
The TUSCALOOSA area is rich in African-American history – at the Murphy-Collins Home visitors can explore the lifestyles of affluent black citizens in the early 1900’s; Stillman College was founded in 1876 to train black ministers, and on the steps of Foster Auditorium on the University of Alabama campus Governor George C. Wallace made his historic "stand in the schoolhouse door"; other attractions include The Children’s Hands-On Museum of Tuscaloosa.
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