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The Sipsey Wilderness lies within Bankhead National Forest around the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River in northwestern Alabama, United States.Designated in 1975 and expanded in 1988, 24,922-acre (10,086 ha) Sipsey is the largest and most frequently visited Wilderness area in Alabama and contains dozens of waterfalls.
Here's how to spend a day like a local in the Queen City of the Mountains.
The NHLs in Alabama comprise 3% of the approximately 1178 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama. Four historic sites in the state are managed by the National Park Service. One of these, the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, is also designated an NHL.
One of the first covered bridges in Alabama. Bridge burned down on July 15, 1972. Cane Creek: Calhoun: Ohatchee: 1886 N/A Cane Creek Bridge was destroyed by a flood in early 1936. Chamblee Mill: Blount: Blountsville: N/A 97 Blue Springs Creek: Bridge no longer extant. Chattahoochee River: Barbour: Eufaula: 1833 540 Chattahoochee River
Oakachoy Covered Bridge: 1915 removed 2001-09-23 Nixburg: Coosa: Covered queen post truss: Edmund Pettus Bridge: 1940 2013-03-11 Selma: Dallas: Steel through arch bridge: Swann Covered Bridge: 1933 1981-08-20 Cleveland
There are several bridges and both new and restored railroad trestles. There is proposal to extend the trail 7.2 miles (11.6 km) from Michael Tucker Park southward to 4th street in downtown Anniston. [6] As of May 2022, the City of Anniston hired an engineering firm to inspect bridges and design the 6.5-mile (10.5 km) trail extension. [7]
The Concord Covered Bridge spanning Nickajack Creek. This covered bridge on Concord Road is the only one remaining in Cobb County and one of only 16 left in Georgia. The bridge measures 133 feet long, 16 feet wide, and 13 feet high, with a low seven-foot entry clearance that has in recent years resulted in collisions by drivers of oversized ...
Cathedral Caverns is a karst cave with a large stalagmite forest covering approximately 3 acres (1.2 ha). The public portion of the cave extends along 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) wheelchair-accessible, concrete walkways for approximately 3,500 feet (1,100 m) and has some 2 miles (3.2 km) of paths; another 2,700 feet (820 m) extend beyond the end of the pathway. [3]