Central Alabama is home to a scenic escape with rivers, forest trails, outdoor recreation, and charming small towns perfect ...

Jutting out from the river bank, a parallel set of metal pipes extends about 10 feet before arching down toward the Cahaba River off Old Rocky Ridge Road in Hoover. The pipes used to be a lot more ...

Charles Farnetti was driving on a bridge over Caffee Creek almost two years ago when he saw the water had turned “almost blood red,” a starkly different color than he’d seen in 24 years living at his ...

Randy Haddock stands on a muddy riverbank in central Alabama, looking over his favorite place on earth. Haddock, a slight, spectacled biologist with a trim beard, smiles as he hoists a canoe over his ...

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WEST BLOCTON, Ala.—“The lilies have bloomed this season if you know where to go.” It’s a line in Birmingham band I Declare’s newly released song “Cahaba,” and it’s the truth. At the recent Cahaba Lily ...