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Alabama Bureau of
Tourism and Travel
PO Box 4927 401 Adams Ave.
Montgomery, AL
36103-4927
(800) 252-2262
[800-ALABAMA];
(334) 242-4169
Road Conditions Hotline
(334) 242-4378
Alabama Division of Game & Fish
(334) 242-3465 |
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Speed Limit : 70
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Studded Tires
Prohibited
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Child Restraints
Required
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Seat Belts
Required
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Trailer Brakes
Required if Weight > 3,000 lbs.
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Trailer Breakaway
Trailer Brakes Required if Weight > 3,000 lbs
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Combined Maximum
Length of Car-Trailer Combination must not exceed 57 feet in
total
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Trailer Chains
Required
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Nickname: The
Heart of Dixie
State bird:
Yellowhammer (Flicker)
State flower:
Camellia
Capital:
Montgomery
Date of admission to the Union:
14 Dec 1819
Population:
4,486,508 (official estimate 2002)
Population density:
33.1/sq km
2000 total overseas arrivals/US ranking:
78,000/33
Time: Central (GMT
- 6). Daylight Saving Time is observed.
The State: Alabama
offers mountains, lakes, caverns, woodland and beaches. Birmingham
is its largest city and cultural centre. Attractions include the
VisionLand theme park and McWane Center (a hands-on science
adventure) and IMAX theatre; the Birmingham Museum of Art;
and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (ASHOF), founded in 1967 and
dedicated to sporting legends such as Jesse Owens and Joe Louis.
Montgomery was the first capital of the Confederacy, and the
First White House of the Confederacy, home to Jefferson Davis, first
President of the provisional government, is still open to the public.
Country music lovers from across the USA make pilgrimages to the Hank
Williams Memorial in the Oakwood Cemetery Annex. Fans lay flowers
next to the huge cowboy hat that lies on his gravestone. The Alabama
Shakespeare Festival, the fifth-largest Shakespeare festival in the
world, attracts around 170,000 visitors every year and is staged at the
Carolyn Blount Theatre.
Alabama played a key role in the American civil rights movement in the
1950s and 1960s. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr first preached at
the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, a
National Historic Landmark, and sites commemorating the struggle can be
found across the State. These include the statues in Birmingham’s
Kelly Ingram Park, Selma’s National Voting Rights Museum
and Institute, and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.
In Birmingham, visitors can go on the Black Heritage Tour of the
city centre and visit the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI)
with its impressive display of African-American history. Tuskegee
is just an hour’s drive from Montgomery. A former slave, Booker T
Washington, founded the Tuskegee Institute to improve educational
opportunities for blacks. Today, visitors can take guided tours of the
thriving university and a restored version of Washington’s home, which
is a National Historic Site.
Mobile is a major seaport, home to the Mobile Museum of Art,
Battleship Park and a lively Family Mardi Gras
celebration (14 Feb-4 Mar 2003). The city is famed for its diverse
architecture resulting from French, Spanish and English rule. For
children, there is the Gulf Coast Exploreum, a science museum and
the Phoenix Fire Museum, which includes antique fire engines.
Other Alabama tourist destinations include the US Space & Rocket
Center in Huntsville; Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail;
the Russell Cave National Monument in Bridgeport; and the
resort towns of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach.
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