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Silver Sands and Emerald Waters: Endless Summer on the Gulf Coast Romantic Getaway The city of New Orleans is surrounded by water. Just don’t expect surfer girls or cabana boys (except in some of the more exotic bars). ... 
Dauphin Island, AL - Romantic Days and Nights in New Orleans
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Alabama Travel Information by Rough Guides Weekend Getaway Just 250 miles from north to south, Alabama ranges from the fast-flowing rivers, waterfalls and lakes of the Appalachian foothills ... 
Birmingham, AL - The Rough Guide to USA
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Natchez Trace Parkway Weekend Getaway The trace has been a major thoroughfare since the late 1700s. The scenic parkway was first a series of paths that the Indians used ...
Nashville, TN - Day Trips from Nashville
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Alabama Travel Guide by Fodor's Weekend Getaway This travel guide is a chapter on Alabama excerpted from the book "Fodor's USA." It covers the entire state region by region and contains ... 
Montgomery, AL - Fodor's USA
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Huntsville's a Blast: Cave Spring, Georgia, and Huntsville, AL Weekend Getaway In the early 1800s John Hunt heard Native American tales that on the west side of the Great Smoky Mountains was a Big Spring from ...
Huntsville, AL - Quick Escapes: Atlanta
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There's Still Magic in the Magic City: Anniston / Talladega / Birmingham, AL Weekend GetawayBirmingham, often called the Magic City because it appeared to grow like magic out of the wilderness, was founded in 1871 at the crossing ...
Birmingham, AL - Quick Escapes: Atlanta
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Sun, Sand, Sea, and Southern Belles: Alabama Gulf Coast / Mobile, AL Weekend Getaway Only a few of the many Alabama Gulf Coast and Mobile Bay attractions are miles of pristine, powdery white beaches; glamorous, historic ...
Mobile, AL - Quick Escapes: Atlanta
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Cheaha Mountain - Alabama Highpoint Scenic Drive Highpoint rank by height: 35th. Cheaha (an Indian word meaning "high") State Park includes a restaurant, country store, museum, nature ... 
Oxford, AL - Highpoint Adventures: The Complete Guide to the 50 State Highpoints
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Huntsville, Alabama Family Vacation Ever want to send your kids to the moon and back? Then come to Huntsville, where space exploration is a way of life. This small, friendly ...
Huntsville, AL - Great Family Vacations: South
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Dauphin Island, Alabama Weekend Getaway Three miles off the coast of Mobile County’s mainland, Dauphin Island is a cigar-shape, 14-mile-long island that is less than 2 miles ...
Fort Morgan, AL - Fodor's Gulf Coast Getaways
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Alabama Gulf Coast: From Dauphin Island to Gulf Shores Scenic Drive Centered on historic Mobile Bay, the charming cities along Alabama ’s Gulf Coast — from European-influenced Mobile to tourist-friendly ...
Mobile, AL - Fodor's Great American Drives of the East
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The Amusement Parks of Alabama Weekend Getaway This chapter describes these Alabama Amusement Parks: Southern Adventures in Huntsville, VisionLand Theme Park in Bessemer, Splash ...
Huntsville, AL - The Amusement Park Guide
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Gulf Shores & Orange Beach, Alabama Weekend Getaway With white sand and gentle warm water, the Gulf Coast is by far one of the state’s greatest attractions. The cooling offshore breezes ...
Gulf Shores, AL - Fodor's Gulf Coast Getaways
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Natchez Trace Parkway: Alabama Scenic Drive The Alabama segment of the Natchez Trace Parkway is the middle leg of a Byway that covers the entire length of the Natchez Trace. ... 
Florence, AL - America's Byways: All-American Roads
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Fairhope & Point Clear, Alabama Weekend Getaway Clinging to the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, the quiet towns of Fairhope and Point Clear have restored clapboard houses with wide ...
Fairhope, AL - Fodor's Gulf Coast Getaways
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Talladega Scenic Drive Scenic DriveA 23-mile highway along the crest of Horseblock Mountain into Cheaha State Park. The Talladega Scenic Drive takes you up a long ridge ... 
Heflin, AL - National Forest Scenic Byways East & South
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Bourbon Street to Birmingham: New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham Baseball Trip Family Vacation In the deep South, politics and baseball are serious subjects. Both are played to win. A visit to New Orleans, Mobile, and Birmingham ...
New Orleans, LA - Fodor's Baseball Vacations
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Fayetteville, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama Weekend Getaway Fayetteville is the town that made the “slawburger” famous. Fayetteville also offers the only sanctioned harness racing in the state ...
Fayetteville, TN - Day Trips from Nashville
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Pigs, Peanuts, Presidents, and Painted Ladies: Americus, GA to Eufaula, AL Weekend Getaway South Georgia is the “Pecan Capital of the World,” known far and wide for not only the nut itself but also pies, cookies, candies, ...
Plains, GA - Quick Escapes: Atlanta
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Center Stage in the South: Tuskegee to Selma, AL Weekend Getaway Montgomery became the catalyst of the 1960s civil rights movement. Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat to a white man sparked ...
Montgomery, AL - Quick Escapes: Atlanta
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