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Universities and colleges in Huntsville, Alabama (3 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Huntsville, Alabama" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The Huntsville Botanical Garden is a 118 acres (480,000 m 2) botanical garden located at 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, Alabama, near the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. It is open year-round for a fee. The garden is ranked third on the list of Alabama's top paid tourist attractions, receiving 353,841 visitors in 2018. [1]
Monte Sano State Park is a public recreation area and mountaintop retreat encompassing 2,140 acres (870 ha) on the eastern portion of the top and slopes of Monte Sano Mountain on the east side of Huntsville, Alabama.
From the wild places of the West like Yellowstone to the hippest urban centers like New York and San Francisco, there's an attraction to see in each of the 50 states that is free or cheap.
The Big Spring is a large, underground karst spring. [8] Hearing of the abundant water source and plentiful big game, John Hunt, Huntsville's founder, sought out the spring and settled near it in 1805 on the bluff above, which later became the site of the First National Bank of Huntsville.
Huntsville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama.The population was 215,006 at the 2020 census and was estimated to be 225,564 in 2023, making it the 95th-most populous city in the U.S. [12] [13] [11] The Huntsville metropolitan area had an estimated 527,000 residents in 2023 and is the second-most populous metro area in the state, after Birmingham.
Panoply is a production of The Arts Council, Inc., a non-profit organization, with sponsorship by Huntsville-area businesses and volunteer support from up to as many as 2,000 people each year. The festival is held annually on the last full weekend of April in downtown Huntsville's Big Spring International Park and Von Braun Center .
Special features of the Monte Sano Nature Preserve include a former limestone quarry known as Three Caves, [2] an historic spring named Trough Springs [3] which was the site of one of the last Alabama confrontations of the Civil War, and the remnants of the Monte Sano Railroad from the late 1800s. The Old Railroad Bed Trail is one of the first ...