Discover Alabama's Hidden Places.

Alabama is home to a variety of outdoors landscapes. From seaside vistas to mountaintop overlooks, you are sure to find the right destination for your next hiking or backpacking trip. Pack your backpack and experience one of the Alabama many state parks, forests, preserves, or land trusts. Find your next adventure in one of our favorite destinations or in our ever evolving list of great trails.
Exploring Alabama can be a great reference to exciting destinations in Alabama.
But please note, we are currently only maintaining the site as an archive and not actively performing updates to the information presented.
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in Shelby County
Lower Woodland Trail
in Morgan County
Flint Creek Trail
in Jefferson County
South Trailhead to Peavine via Green Trail
in Shelby County
Shoal Creek Nature Walk
in Marshall County
Waterfall Cascades Loop
in Shelby County
Dunnavant Valley Greenway


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"The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel."
Theodore Roosevelt