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Our annual photo contest is another way to publicize your designated National Recreation Trail. Please see details at: http://www.americantrails.org/nationalrecreationtrails/photocon.html

American Trails sponsors the annual contest for photographs of National Recreation Trails and provides awards in several categories. The DEADLINE for entries is December 31, 2011.

Photos must be in JPEG or TIFF format. Submit via our website at: http://atfiles.org/ftp/web/ATUpload.html or email to NRT@AmericanTrails.org. Check the online searchable database for a list of NRTs in your state and more information on individual trails.

Entries will be displayed on the NRT website. See the 2010 galleries at:
http://www.americantrails.org/photoGalleries/photocontest2010/index.html

ALABAMA'S NATIONAL RECREATION TRAILS AS OF JULY 2011
Alabama Scenic River Trail
Bartram Trail
Chattahoochee Valley Railroad (CVRR) Trail - North
Chattahoochee Valley Railroad (CVRR) Trail - South
Chewacla State Park Trail System
Chief Ladiga Trail (Jacksonville Section)
Chief Ladiga Trail (Piedmont Section)
Citronelle Walking Trail
City of Foley Antique Rose Trail
DeSoto State Park Trail System
Eastern Shore Trail
Florala-Lake Jackson Scenic Trail
George Ward Park Exercise
Hugh S. Branyon Backcountry Trail
Lake Guntersville State Park Trail System
Lake Lurleen State Park Trail System
Limestone County Canoe & Kayak Trail
Minooka Park Trail System
Montevallo Greenway Trail
Muscle Shoals
Pinhoti
Queen City Park Trail
Richard Martin Trail
Smith Lake Park Walking/Bike Trails
Sportsman Lake Trails
Stony Lonesome OHV Park Trail System
Sunset Drive Trail
Swan Creek Greenway Trail
Talladega-Lincoln Outdoor Park & Trails (T.O.P.TR
Tannehill Tramway Trail
The Larry and Ronna Dykes Trail
Veterans Park Trail
Village Pointe Preserve Park Trail System
Wind Creek State Park Trail System
Yoholo-Micco, The Creek Indian Trail

Photo Alert!

It is prime time for taking pictures of your landmark buildings with dogwoods and azaleas in bloom.  Having attractive people, dressed in solid colors, and who are enjoying themselves, in the shots is always a big plus.  So get outside and start shooting those pictures this week - next week may be too late.  Then, please share those images with the Alabama Tourism Department.  The images should be at least 8" X 10" and 300 dpi.  Send them by e-mail (or a CD in snail mail) to:

Peggy Collins, Photo Editor
Alabama Tourism Department
P.O. Box 4927, Montgomery, AL  36103-4927
peggy.collins@tourism.alabama.gov

The Alabama Tourism Department is now accepting submissions for its Spring Photo Contest. Deadline for submission is June 30. Photos should be of a recognizable destination or landmark in a spring environment. Firstprize will be $1,000; second prize $500; third prize $250. Only digital images of at least 300 dpi and 9" x 12" will be accepted. All photos submitted become the property of the Alabama Tourism Department. Photos should be emailed to Peggy Collins at Peggy.Collins@tourism.alabama.gov or saved to a CD and mailed to:

attention: Peggy Collins
Alabama Tourism Department
401 Adams Avenue, Suite 126
Montgomery, AL 36104

TIA is re-branding and trying to build a richer image library of the best of what travel has to offer. Share your highest quality license-free images relating to travel that are emotive and experiential. Images will be used in various forms, including on tia.org website, in printed materials, PowerPoint presentations, etc.

Please provide images in JPG format at 300 dpi via email, or on CD to Dennis Petroskey, Travel Industry Association, 1100 New York Avenue NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20005. Direct any questions to Dennis at (202) 408-2162, dpetroskey@tia.org.

For those of you who would like photos that can be printed, there is a large (and slow-to-load) slideshow with over 100 images located here. Simply click on the image you want and it will open up in another browser window. For those of you who simply want to enjoy a few photos, just watch the slideshow below!

Here's a sign everyone wants to see in their community.

Scenes from Beautiful Southwest Alabama. Photos by Joe Watts.

Across the United States, heritage tourism is on the rise.  To promote Alabama’s unique blend of Civil Rights history and cultural traditions, Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Tourism are teaming up to develop a Civil Rights Heritage Trail in Alabama.  The project aims to provide tourists with a rich travel experience by allowing access to Alabama’s Civil Rights sites through easy-to-follow routes and the inclusion of unique local restaurants, lodging and cultural amenities.  

The guide will go beyond well-known Civil Rights museums to include many additional sites significant in the struggle for racial equality.  Auburn University staff will work closely with the Alabama Department of Tourism to build on the Department’s current Civil Rights publication.  

The Florida Bureau of Historic Preservation has identified a series of reinforced concrete block billboards that were constructed in 1953 along Florida’s major tourist routes (pre-interstate).  The billboards were designed and patented in 1952 by Cecil Hayden Davis of Springfield Illinois who had also purchased De Leon Springs, a historic tourist attraction here in Florida, that same year.  Sixty of these were built and at least 12 are still extant.  These “outdoor signboards” were designed to be permanent and withstand hurricane force winds. We are trying to find out if anything similar exists in other states.

Sherry Anderson, Architectural Historian
Transportation Compliance Review Program
Bureau of Historic Preservation, Division of Historical Resources
 
sanderson@dos.state.fl.us. (800) 847-7278   Toll Free. (850) 245-6437   Fax

Little River Canyon National Preserve. Photo by Joe Watts

Another entry in Beautiful Alabama. Visit the deepest canyon east of the Mississippi. http://www.nps.gov/liri/
Don't forget to send your entries in! info@yourtownalabama.org.

McDill Point, Pinhoti Trail, Talladega National Forest, Cheaha State Park
Photo by Paul Kennedy

Beautiful Alabama Continues. Send your favorite images of Alabama to info@yourtownalabama.org. Make sure to include the location and who took the photo!

Cardiff Cemetery, Brookside, Alabama. photo by Francesca Gross

Enjoy the Annual Five Mile Creek Greenway Festival April 5, 2008. Pageant, Arts & Crafts, Hiking Canoeing, Food, Fishing, Bike Race, Regions 5K Run, Music. Join the fun.
www.brooksidealabama.com