Cycling – Road Route – Southwest Alabama - The Underground Railroad Bicycle Route

The Underground Railroad Bicycle Route, is a historical route that honors the bravery of those who fled bondage and those who provided shelter.

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This route passes points of interest and historic sites beginning in Mobile and continuing for over 2,000 miles to Canada.

Alabama not only plays a key role as the starting point for the cycling route but contains some of the most scenic and historical rural sections of the trail.

Starting in historic downtown Mobile at the corner of St. Louis and Royal Streets, once one fo the busiest slave markets in the South, the route, passes by the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park, crosses Mobile Bay near Meaher State Park and then turns northward to Historic Blakeley State Park where the last major battle of the Civil War was fought on the very day General Robert E Lee surrendered in Virginia.

As the route heads northward in Alabama, it passes near Ft. Mims, site of one of the worst massacres in American history and continues in rural southwest Alabama. In Aliceville, the route passes by the a museum dedicated to the German POW soldiers held in the town during WWII.

Besides the lush green scenery and the many small towns this route passes through, tall loblolly pines and the brown waters of the slow-moving Tombigbee River await the cyclis in the Alabama section the Underground Railroad Bicycle Route.

For details contact Adventure Cycling Association and ask for the Mobile, Alabama to Fulton, Mississippi section route map of the Alabama to Canada Underground Railroad Bicycle Route.