Mountains
Mountains, aka North Alabama, is a region at the southern edge of the Appalachian Mountains known for its abundant natural beauty, including many caves, lakes, and waterfalls.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Huntsville and Decatur.
Huntsville
Huntsville is in northern Alabama, about 20 miles from the border with Tennessee. The city is a center for missile defense and aerospace technologies, with companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman having major operations here.
Decatur
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Decatur is the largest city in and the county seat of Morgan County in the U.S. state of Alabama. Nicknamed "The River City," it is located in northern Alabama on the banks of Wheeler Lake along the Tennessee River.
Florence
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Florence is a city in and the county seat of Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, in the state's northwestern corner, and had a population of 40,184 in the 2020 census.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Cullman and Tuscumbia.
Cullman
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Cullman is the largest city and county seat of Cullman County, Alabama, United States. It is located along Interstate 65, about 50 miles north of Birmingham and about 55 miles south of Huntsville.
Tuscumbia
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Tuscumbia is a small town in northwest Alabama near Wheeler Lake and Wilson Lakes, best known as the birthplace of the famous deaf-blind activist and author, Helen Keller.
Fort Payne
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Fort Payne - is a small city in the northeast corner of Alabama with a population just under 13,000. It is the county seat and largest city in DeKalb County.
Athens
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Athens is a city of 27,000 people in northern Alabama, USA about 15 miles south of the Tennessee border and 20 miles west of Huntsville. It is the county seat of Limestone county.
Oneonta
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Oneonta is a small town in the mountains of Alabama, home to the Covered Bridge Festival. For once it seems the North and South have some commonality, as this Oneonta bears the name after the one in New York.
Scottsboro
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Scottsboro is in the Mountains region of Alabama and is the seat of Jackson County, having enlivened a railroad mode of commerce there. It is a memorial to a seemingly rare instance where civil rights prevailed in the otherwise rather torn history of equality in this country, in a case known as the Scottsboro Boys.
Arab
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Arab is a city mostly in Marshall County, with a portion in Cullman County, in the northern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, located 10 miles from Guntersville Lake and Guntersville Dam, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.
Guntersville
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Guntersville is a city and the county seat of Marshall County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population of the city was 8,553. Guntersville is located in a HUBZone as identified by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Elkmont
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Elkmont is nestled in the mountains of northern Alabama. It is in Limestone County, north of Athens.
Russell Cave National Monument
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Russell Cave National Monument is a United States national monument in Bridgeport in northeastern Alabama. Its cave shelter archaeological site contains the most complete record of prehistoric cultures in the Southeast.
Mountains
- Also known as: “Mountains (Alabama)”
- Location: Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
34.24° or 34° 14′ 24″ northLongitude of center
-86.87° or 86° 52′ 12″ westWikidata ID
Q14225845
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From German to Slovenian—“Mountains” goes by many names.
- German: “Alabama/Norden”
- German: “Norden”
- Japanese: “マウンテンズ”
- Slovenian: “Mountains”
- Slovenian: “Severna Alabama”
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