Bankhead National Forest and Sipsey Wilderness
- Location: 1070 Alabama 33 Double Springs, AL 35553
- Phone: (205) 489-5111
- http://www.fs.usda.gov/alabama
1. William B. Bankhead National Forest
One of Alabama’s four National Forests, covering 181,230 acres. It is home to Alabama’s only National Wild and Scenic River, the Sipsey Fork. Recreational Areas and offers so many trails you could spend weeks here. There are six recreation areas scattered about the Bankhead National Forest, each offering a unique experience of its own. Facilities for camping, picnicking, fishing, hiking, and swimming are abundant. All facilities are designed with forest users in mind and provide varying challenges for everyone from the novice to the expert. Forest users will find that each area has its own personality and with the changing seasons, even that personality will change.Sipsey is the largest national forest wilderness area east of the Mississippi. The Sipsey Fork river offers a peaceful float trip combined with the beautiful scenery and great camping that distinguishes the Bankhead from other National Forests. While canoeing the Sipsey Fork you will pass magnificent walls of rock which has been carved for thousands of years by the erosive power of water. As the Sipsey Fork begins to merge with Smith Lake the creek becomes non-turbulent and wide. This area must be paddled but offers a slow-pace if interested in fishing or just a slow-paced family trip.
Pond Spring, the General Joe Wheeler Home
- Location: 12280 Hwy. 20 Hillsboro, AL 35643
- Phone: (256) 637-8513
- http://www.ahc.alabama.gov/properties/pondspring/pondspring.aspx
2. General Joe Wheeler Home
Known as Pond Spring, was home to Fighting Joseph Wheeler, former Major General of Cavalry of the Confederate western army. Wheeler was a U.S. Congressman following the Civil War. “Fightin’ Joe” Wheeler became a national symbol for reunification and reconciliation following the Civil War and throughout the latter half of the 19th Century.
Oakville Indian Mounds Education Center
- Location: 1219 County Road 187 Danville, AL 35619
- Phone: (256) 905-2499
- https://www.facebook.com/OakvilleIndianMounds/
3. Oakville Indian Mounds Education Center
Features the largest 2,000-year-old Woodland Indian Mound in Alabama, early settler cemetery, Black Warriors Path, 8,000 sq. ft. 122-acre park with 20-acre fishing pond, and walking paths.
Jesse Owens Museum
- Location: 7019 County Rd. 203 Danville, AL 35619
- Phone: (256) 974-3636
- http://www.jesseowensmuseum.org
4. Jesse Owens Museum
A 20-acre park, near Jesse Owens’ birthplace, honors the track great who captured four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The park both educates and entertains with a museum, broad jump pit, life-size bronze statue, 1936 torch replica, Olympic Gold Medal Tree, home replica, playground, ball fields, picnic pavilions, gift shop, and visitor’s center. Alabama Mountain.
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