National parks in Alabama

A slightly curvy section of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Early Fall

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Parkway · AL

Natchez Trace Parkway

The Natchez Trace Parkway is one of America's most underrated long-distance road experiences, a free 444-mile corridor threading Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee with virtually no commercial interruption.

blue cannon sits in front of park's visitor center

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National Military Park · AL

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

Horseshoe Bend is a free, richly layered military park where one of American history's most consequential and tragic battles unfolded in 1814.

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National Preserve · AL

Little River Canyon National Preserve

Little River Canyon is a legitimate surprise in northeast Alabama, a place where a river actually runs along the top of a plateau before carving through sandstone bluffs into a canyon most visitors never expected to find in this state.

large white house, green lawn, two trees in front

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National Historic Trail · AL

Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

This is not a park you visit in a single afternoon but a 9-state corridor of conscience stretching from the Cherokee homelands of the Southeast to Oklahoma.

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National Monument · AL

Russell Cave National Monument

Russell Cave is a compact, free archaeological monument built around one remarkable fact: people sheltered in this cave for roughly 12,000 years, leaving behind one of the Southeast's densest prehistoric records.

50th Anniversary Walking Classroom Participants.

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National Historic Trail · AL

Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail

This is one of the most morally significant corridors in American history, and the NPS has built a thoughtful interpretive framework around it.

4 separate statues of the four little girls who were killed in the 16th st Baptist Church bombing

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National Monument · AL

Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument

This is not a park in any conventional sense, it is a concentrated urban monument to one of the most pivotal moments in American history.

Red-Tail P-51D Mustang In Flight Exhibit

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National Historic Site · AL

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

Moton Field is where history was forced to prove itself under unfair conditions, and it did.

Colored Greyhound mural with historical information about the Freedom Riders

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National Monument · AL

Freedom Riders National Monument

Freedom Riders National Monument centers on a single, shattering moment in American history: May 14, 1961, when a bus carrying civil rights activists was attacked in Anniston, Alabama.

A three story Queen Anne Revival style red brick house

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National Historic Site · AL

Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site

Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site punches well above its modest activity roster.

Potkopinu Section of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail

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National Scenic Trail · AL

Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail

This is not a destination park in any conventional sense.