Alabama National Parks

From the recesses of Russell Cave in the North to the all black town of Tuskegee in the South you will walk in the steps of great statesmen and shattered Indian tribes.  While Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver led a generaton of post-Civil War blacks, Martin Luther King Jr led a civil rights generation as it marched from Selma to Montgomery.

Visit these Alabama National Parks:

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park: On March 27, 1814, 3,300 Tennessee militia, U.S. Regulars, and allied warriors under his command defeated 1,000 Red Sticks led by Chief Menawa. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend ended the Creek War, and the peace treaty added 23 million acres of Creek land to the southeastern United States – three-fifths of Alabama and one-fifth of Georgia.

Horseshoe Bend: A View of the Battlefield: Andrew Jackson’s army arrived at Horseshoe Bend about 10 a.m. on March 27, 1814. Brig Gen. John Coffee ’s mounted infantry and Indian allies crossed the Tallapoosa about three miles downstream and encircled the "horseshoe" so the Red Sticks could not get help from other towns or escape by swimming the river. Jackson deployed his own militia and regulars across the field and placed his artillery on the hill to the right.

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Little River Canyon National Preserve : It is one of the nation’s longest rivers that forms and flows for most of its length atop a mountain. Then it plunges off the Cumberland Plateau at the head of Little River Canyon. Beginning at 1,900 feet above sea level up on Lookout Mountain, the Little River ends up at 650 feet above sea level at Weiss Lake. The result is one of the most extensive canyon and gorge systems in the eastern United States and one of the South’s clearest wildest waterways.

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Natchez Trace: 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. Today, visitors can experience this National Scenic Byway and All-American Road through driving, hiking, biking, horseback riding, and camping.

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Russell Cave: Geology: The rock out of which Russell Cave was carved was formed at the bottom of the inland sea then covering the region. A layer of carbonaceous deposits (skeletons and shells) was transformed into limestone by the pressure of overlying water, sand, and mud. After the sea retreated, water dripped through fissures in the limestone. The drips became rivulets and then underground streams that cut thousands of tunnels and caverns.

Russell Cave: Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian Cultures: Russell Cave offers one of the longest and most complete archeological records in the eastern United States.

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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. The route is also designated as a National Scenic Byway/All-American Road.

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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.

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Tuskegee Airmen: 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. Come share their experience as depicted at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site.

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Tuskegee Institute: 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.

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