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New 700-acre outdoor recreation and environmental park. 3 oxbow swamp lakes, hardwood forest with trails, picnic area with pavilion. Trail to beach preserve on Cahaba River. Outstanding birding, fishing, canoeing.

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Moore/Webb/Holmes Plantation

1800s plantation owned by same family since 1819. Country store, smokehouse, log cotton seed house. Weaving, carriage and tenant houses. Blacksmith shop, grist mill, barns, more. 6 mi./9.5

Marion, AL Plantations

Lincoln Museum

Artifacts and exhibits of Lincoln Normal School, founded in 1867

Marion, AL Museums

Marion Female Seminary

While teaching here in 1861, Prussian-born artist Nicola Marschall designed the first national flag of the Confederate States of America, "The Stars and Bars." Itt was officially adopted by the Confederate States of America on March 4, 1861

Marion, AL Seminars

Perry Lakes Park Wildlife Sanctuary & Barton's Bea

New 700-acre outdoor recreation and environmental park. 3

Marion, AL Wildlife Preserves


Things to do near Marion, AL

Shelby Iron Works

One of 2 such mills in the South at the outbreak of the Civil War. This plant produced armor that covered hull of famous Conf...

Nauvoo Depot Museum

Replica of original 1897 structure, located at original site. Stories of train station, local industry, pictures displayed in...

Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind

Country's most comprehensive education and rehabilitation program for deaf and blind children and adults. Campus buildings no...

Dr. Francis' Medical Museum

Considered one of finest examples of mid-19th-century professional offices in Alabama. Greek Revival doctor's office and apot...