Enjoy Free Activities in Alabama

Enjoy the beautiful gardens at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Located at 2612 Lane Park Road, the gardens have much to offer. A café , gift shop, garden center, and library are also on site. Call 205-414-3900 for information on hours of operation.

Learn about the art of jazz at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Located at 1631 4th Ave. North, inside the Carver Theater for performing arts, this hall of fame includes over 200 inductees such as Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole , and Jimmy "Guitar" Allen.

Visit the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Located at 520 16th Street North. The institute offers information, archives, galleries, and educational programs on the history of Birmingham's role in the Civil Rights Movement. (Admission is Free only on MLK Holiday) Call 205-328-9696 ext. 215 for more information.

See how cavemen lived in the prehistoric periods at the Russell Cave National Monument , located in Bridge port offers all of it's activities free of charge. Activities include guided tours, museum exhibits, movies, nature hikes, and demonstrations of prehistoric tools and weapons.

View artifacts from the time of the First President of the United States at The Karl C. Harrison Museum of George Washington, located at the Mildred B Harrison Regional Library, 50 Lester Street, Columbiana, Alabama is focused around artifacts and art from the colonial period to 1865. Admission is free and the museum is surprisingly opened to the general public. Call 205-669-8767 for more information.

Visit The Horseshoe Bend National Military Park is a preservation site of where the final Battle of the Creek War of 1813-1814 took place. Free activities include, hiking, boating, picnicking, cycling, and fishing. The park is also home to more than 354 wildlife species. For more information, call 256-234-7111.

Be sure to take the children to the Cook's natural Science Museum , located in Decatur. It offers over 100 displays of insects, animals, reptiles, shells, birds and wildlife totally free. A geologist stated that "it was probably one of the top ten Natural Science Museums in America". For more information call 1-800-239-9898.