TravelAwaits
Jul.19.2021
With a cool autumn breeze blowing across the rocky outcropping known as the King’s Chair, and the hardwood trees glowing with brilliant fall colors, you really get a true impression of the city of Birmingham. On the horizon, you see the skyscrapers that mark the city as a bustling business center. But there is another side of the Magic City that is often overlooked the natural beauty that encircles it.
Enveloping the city are gently rolling mountains, tumultuous white water and tranquil flatwater rivers and streams, and much more. There are myriad ways to visit these natural wonders.
TravelAwaits
Jul.6.2021
Huntsville, Alabama, also referred to as Rocket City,is much more than a major technological and aerospace center. It also has some incredible green spaces that offer visitors to the city a chance to experience beautiful panoramic vistas, fascinating geologic features, and thundering waterfalls.
There is only one way you can get to the incredible outdoor wonderlands of the region and that’s by lacing up your boots and taking a hike. Here are nine of the best hikes in the Huntsville area.
For any of these hikes, remember to carry plenty of water with you (especially in the hot summer months) no matter what distance you will be hiking, and while many of the trails listed here follow alongside springs and creeks, be sure to filter the water before drinking.
TravelAwaits
Jun.28.2021
Looking for that next adventure? If you live on the U.S. east coast, you may not have to look much farther than right in your own backyard.
There is a hiking trail that travels through 16 states, beginning at the Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida, ending some 5,400-miles away in Cape Gaspe’, Canada. It’s a trail that isn’t a trail but rather, a combination of seven east coast long-distance hiking trails that together form the Eastern Continental Trail or ECT.
Only a few hearty souls have made the entire trek on what the Sierra Club calls “a beast of a hike,” but you don’t have to upend your life for a year to experience the beauty and wonder of the trail. Instead, take a day or overnight hike on one of the many trails that make up the ECT – the Florida Trail, Conecuh Trail in Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest, Alabama and Georgia’s Pinhoti Trail, Benton MacKaye Trail in Georgia, the iconic Appalachian Trail (A.T.), an
There is nothing better than heading to a secluded pond, stream, or lake for a summertime swim, and Alabama has plenty of places where you can do just that.
Titusville, FL, runs along Florida’s coast and Indian River and is a bridge-crossing away from Kennedy Space Center. It’s the perfect town for a road trip.