Top Things to do in Alabama
Top Hotels in Alabama
- 1. Best Western Premier The Tides
- 2. The Lodge at Gulf State Park, a Hilton Hotel
- 3. Perdido Beach Resort
- 4. Drury Inn & Suites Huntsville at the Space & Rocket Center
- 5. Best Western On The Beach
- 6. Drury Inn & Suites Birmingham Grandview
- 7. Hotel Capstone
- 8. Hyatt Regency Birmingham - The Wynfrey Hotel
- 9. Hampton Inn & Suites Birmingham-Downtown-Tutwiler
- 10. Drury Inn Mobile
The 10 Best Bodies of Water in Alabama, United States
If you head for the hills in the state you’ll end up in the northern sector where the inspiring mountains and attractions like the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, the Blue & Gray Museum in Decatur and the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman represent the diversity of experiences available in the area. In the middle of the state you’ll find Birmingham, an urban center with great attractions and museums, and Tuscaloosa, the quintessential college town and home to the University of Alabama. For beach lovers, sandy destinations like Dauphin Island near Mobile, Gulf Shores and Orange Beach offer beautiful beaches, superb golf, fantastic seafood restaurants and heaping helpings of Southern hospitality.
For those who love to chase the white dimpled ball, Alabama offers one of the best golf values anywhere. The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, a collection of 468 holes at 11 different sites across the state, features top-notch, championship style courses at affordable rates.
Restaurants in Alabama
1. Wheeler Lake
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 6 reviews
a 65,000 acre reservoir on the Tennessee River running from Huntsville through Decatur to Wheeler Dam in Lauderdale County. Offers diverse sports fishing with largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass, crappie, hybrids, bluegill and channel catfish.
2. Neely Henry Lake
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 18 reviews
Made up of 11,200 acres of rippling blue waters and 339 miles of shoreline. Fish for largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass, as well as catfish. Runs North-South next to Gadsden, Alabama
Reviewed By corkyehyatt - Gadsden, United States
Excellent fishing, good food and beautiful sights! We fell in love with the Lake and purchased a new home here.
3. Lake Guntersville
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 94 reviews
Alabama's largest impoundment of 69,000 acres with more than 900 miles of shoreline. Noted as an excellent bass lake and resort area. Stretches from Scottsboro to Guntersville.
Reviewed By Shotgunab - Birmingham, United States
This is is one of the nicest places to visit, from high upon the park you can look down on to the river and the scenery is spectacular, and at night the sunset looking down the river is spectacular. If you like to look at the wildlife a drive through the park will make the drive worth it, plenty of deer to look at and take pictures.
4. Lake Martin
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 63 reviews
Reviewed By Jkpainter1
There isn’t a better lake or place to take a family for vacation than Lake Martin, we just returned from a week long trip and have already booked 7 days in 2021, the lake is beautiful, the homes and restaurants are great and every person we came in contact with was friendly and helpful, I would give it 10 stars if it allowed me too, fantastic, beautiful place
5. Lake Wedowee/R. L. Harris Reservoir
6. Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge
7. Whitey Lee Park
8. Lewis-Smith Lake & Dam
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 65 reviews
Reviewed By Karmann1964 - Jasper, United States
We enjoy viewing the lake while in our boat. There are so many beautiful bluffs and places to stop to swim.
9. Mobile Bay
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 144 reviews
Reviewed By DannyWasserman - Virginia Beach, United States
We enjoyed our Baywatch and watched the shrimpers all through the bay catching their shrimp on their trawlers. Very peaceful and so close to the Gulf of Mexico.
