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Road trips from Birmingham

20 back-roads routes start within a 4.5-hour drive of Birmingham, including 1 day trip and 17 weekend drives; 1 ready-made itinerary begins nearby.

Drive times are estimates to the nearer end of each route (straight-line miles plus a quarter, at 50 mph); the atlas itself never routes you onto an interstate once the drive begins.

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Day trips from Birmingham

• Hank's Lost Highway
  About 2 h 5 min to Montgomery
  Montgomery → Mobile · ~170 mi · 1 days · skips I-65

Weekend road trips from Birmingham

• The Black Belt & Gee's Bend
  About 1 h 15 min to Tuscaloosa
  Tuscaloosa → Selma · ~165 mi · 2 days · skips I-65 (by 70 miles)
• The Shoals
  About 2 h 5 min to Huntsville
  Corinth → Huntsville · ~150 mi · 2 days · skips I-22 / I-65
• The Middle Tennessee Pike
  About 2 h 30 min to Muscle Shoals
  Nashville → Muscle Shoals · ~140 mi · 2 days · skips I-65
• The Hill Country Ramble
  About 3 h to Tupelo
  Memphis → Tupelo · ~130 mi · 1–2 days · skips I-22
• The Chattahoochee Trace
  About 3 h 15 min to Columbus
  Columbus → Bainbridge · ~180 mi · 2 days · skips I-75 (by 90 miles)
• The Old Federal Road
  About 3 h 15 min to Columbus, GA
  Columbus, GA → Fort Mims · ~230 mi · 2–3 days · skips I-85 / I-65
• The Trail of Tears: Georgia to Kentucky
  About 3 h 15 min to New Echota
  New Echota → Hopkinsville · ~350 mi · 3 days · skips I-75 / I-24
• The Free State of Jones
  About 3 h 25 min to Meridian
  Meridian → Natchez · ~200 mi · 2 days · skips I-59 / US 84 four-lane hurry
• US 41: Dixie Highway, Nashville to Chattanooga
  About 3 h 25 min to Chattanooga
  Nashville → Chattanooga · ~220 mi · 2 days · skips I-24
• Highway 64: Shiloh to Lookout Mountain
  About 3 h 25 min to Chattanooga
  Memphis → Chattanooga · ~340 mi · 2–3 days · skips I-40 / I-24
• The Overhill Country
  About 3 h 25 min to Chattanooga
  Chattanooga → Gatlinburg · ~175 mi · 2 days · skips I-75
• US 127: The Plateau & the Sale
  About 3 h 25 min to Chattanooga
  Chattanooga → Albany, KY · ~160 mi · 2 days · skips I-40
• US 41: Dixie Highway & the Atlanta Campaign
  About 3 h 25 min to Chattanooga
  Chattanooga → Atlanta · ~120 mi · 1–2 days · skips I-75
• US 84: Wiregrass to Mockingbird
  About 3 h 30 min to Monroeville
  Dothan → Monroeville · ~170 mi · 2 days · skips I-10 (by 60 miles)
• US 341: The Golden Isles Highway
  About 3 h 55 min to Barnesville
  Barnesville → Brunswick · ~225 mi · 2 days · skips I-75 / I-16
• Plains & Andersonville
  About 4 h 20 min to Plains
  Macon → Plains · ~90 mi · 1 days · skips I-75
• North Georgia Gold & Apples
  About 4 h 25 min to Dahlonega
  Dahlonega → Brasstown Bald · ~130 mi · 1–2 days · skips GA 400 / I-575

Named parkways and scenic byways within reach

• The Chattahoochee Trace
  About 3 h 15 min to Columbus
  Columbus → Bainbridge · ~180 mi · 2 days · skips I-75 (by 90 miles)

Longer itineraries starting near Birmingham

• The Sacred South: Gospel & Sanctuary
  6 days · ~700 mi · from Tuscaloosa
  Alabama's Black Belt as holy ground: the quilting congregation of Gee's Bend, the churches that anchored the movement, and the old Federal Road's…

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