The North Alabama Patriot Trail showcases significant landmarks that commemorate the valor of America’s veterans, featuring locations such as memorial parks, veterans’ memorials and museums. With the new travel tools, we are providing a more connected and immersive journey for travelers who want to pay tribute and learn about North Alabama’s proud military history. In addition to the Trail, we have also created a North Alabama Patriot Trail GeoTour Passport for all our geocaching friends!
New Travel Tools Include:
North Alabama Patriot Trail GeoTour Passport
Geocaching is a global, outdoor treasure hunt using GPS-enabled devices. More than 3 million geocaches are hidden in over 190 countries worldwide, with over 7 million active participants. The "caches" come in all shapes, sizes and difficulty, navigating participants through clues and coordinates via cell phone. It is a fun, free and family-friendly outdoor activity that anyone can do at any time. AMLA has 19 caches hidden around the region designed to take participants on a patriotic adventure through North Alabama. To play, download a passport from www.northalabama.org/things-to-do/sports-recreation/geocaching. Register for a free account on geocaching.com and download the app. Use the clues and coordinates to navigate to the corresponding caches and record the date the cache was found on the passport. Cachers who record 15 of the 19 locations are eligible to receive a North Alabama Patriot Trail Geocoin.
North Alabama Patriot Trail Mobile Pass
A new digital passport available via Bandwango, this free platform highlights 61 patriot sites found on the North Alabama Patriot Trail. Before or during a visit to North Alabama, visitors can sign up for the digital savings passport from https://www.northalabama.org/places-to-visit/trails/patriot-trail/. Bandwango will then send a passport link to the user’s phone providing convenient access during their trip. Those checking in at 25 locations will earn a free prize from AMLA.
Click below to listen to the Unexpected Adventures in North Alabama podcast episode about the Veterans Memorial Park in Scottsboro:
The newest addition to AMLA’s trail mix is the North Alabama Patriot Trail, joining AMLA’s 10 existing trails. The North Alabama Patriot Trail brochure is a 12-page handy guide to memorial parks, museums, memorials, markers, archives, noteworthy locations, festivals, specials events and parades to visit in the 16 northernmost counties of North Alabama (Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Morgan and Winston counties). The listings contain a description, address, phone number and website so travelers can easily plan a visit.
A copy of the brochure is available for download at www.northalabama.org/places-to-visit/trails/patriot-trail, may be picked up at the AMLA office located at 402 Sherman Street SE in Decatur or may be requested by calling 800.648.5381.
