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Alabama Adventure & Splash Adventure (previously known as VisionLand, Alabama Adventure, Splash Adventure and Alabama Splash Adventure) is a water park and amusement park in Bessemer, Alabama. It is owned by Koch Family Parks, which consists of members of the family who formerly had minority ownership in Holiday World & Splashin' Safari. [2]
The competitive sport of diving has included the 10-meter dive as an Olympic event since the 1904 Summer Olympics. By 1837, six indoor pools with diving boards had been built in London, England. The first diving competition was held in 1885, in Germany. [2]
This list of Alabama state parks covers state parks in the Alabama park system. As of 2023, there were 21 official Alabama state parks run in part or exclusively by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources [ 1 ] and three historic state parks run by other authorities.
Glencoe (local pronunciation "Glin-ko") is a city in Calhoun and Etowah counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is part of the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area . The city incorporated in 1939. [ 3 ]
Point Mallard Park is a park located in Decatur, Alabama, United States that sits on 500 acres (2.0 km 2) of the Flint Creek shoreline. Flint Creek is a tributary of the nearby Tennessee River . The park, portions of which are open year-round, borders the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge and is operated by the City of Decatur Parks and ...
Boesmansgat – Sinkhole and dive site in South Africa; Bohol Sea – Marginal sea between the Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines; Booya – Schooner wrecked in Darwin, Australia; BOS 400 – Recent wreck and dive site at Duiker Point on the Cape Peninsula west coast; Bottle Island – One of the Summer Isles in Loch Broom, Scotland
It is bordered to the west by the cities of Gadsden (the county seat) and Glencoe, and to the northwest by the Coosa River. U.S. Route 278 passes through the city, leading west 9 miles (14 km) to the center of Gadsden, and east 15 miles (24 km) to Piedmont.
Roland Cooper State Park is a public recreation area located six miles north of Camden, Alabama, on the eastern shore of Dannelly Reservoir, a 22,000-acre (8,900 ha) impoundment of the Alabama River known locally as the Millers Ferry Reservoir. [2] The park features cottages, campground, fishing, and boating facilities. [3]