River Heritage Region

The River Heritage Region covers the southern half of Alabama, a broad stretch of agricultural country and small cities working from the Black Belt south to the Wiregrass and the Florida line. The terrain runs flat to gently rolling — rich black-soil farmland in the Black Belt, longleaf pine and peanut country in the southeast — drained by the Alabama, Chattahoochee, and Conecuh rivers. Montgomery County holds the state capital and the most concentrated visitor traffic. Lee County holds Auburn and the university; Russell holds Phenix City; Houston holds Dothan and the heart of the Wiregrass; Dallas holds Selma and the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Smaller anchors include Tuskegee, Eufaula, Troy, and Greenville. Most visits run civil-rights and history-focused. Montgomery’s Civil Rights Memorial, Rosa Parks Museum, the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice anchor most itineraries; Selma’s bridge and Tuskegee’s Airmen and Institute history fill day trips out of Montgomery; Auburn, Eufaula, and Dothan handle the football, lake, and Wiregrass cultural sides.