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$45-200) , 48 miles east of Birmingham on the I-20. Pitched to absurd angles, it's the
biggest and fastest oval in the circuit and an absolute adrenaline rush on race day.
ROLL TIDE!
Roll Tide! It's the call you'll hear, well pretty much everywhere in the town of Tusca-
loosa, 60 miles southwest of Birmingham, but especially on Saturday afternoons
in the fall. During football season, students and alumni gather in the University of
Alabama ( www.ua.edu ) quad, hours before kickoff, for a pre-game party like none oth-
er. White tents, wired with satellite TV, fill the expansive lawn. Barbecue is smoked
and devoured, cornhole (drunken bean-bag toss) is played. At game time all mi-
grate to Bryant-Denny Stadium ( 205-348-3600; www.rolltide.com ; 920 Paul W Bryant Dr) ,
a 102,000 capacity football stadium that looks out onto the rolling hills and is al-
ways packed with rabid fans, and with good reason. The Alabama Crimson Tide
have won 19 national championships, including the last two, and three of the last
four. Get a full dose of Crimson Tide football history, at the Paul W Bryant Mu-
seum ( 205-348-4668; www.bryantmuseum.com ; 300 Paul W Bryant Dr; adult/senior & child $2/1;
9am-4pm) , named for the greatest coach of them all. Or so the legend goes…
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Montgomery
In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus, launching a
bus boycott and galvanizing the Civil Rights movement nationwide. The city has com-
memorated that incident with a museum, which along with a few other civil rights sights,
is the main reason to visit. Alabama's capital, Montgomery is an otherwise pleasant but
sleepy city.
Sights
Montgomery's pleasant Riverwalk is accessed via a tunnel from downtown and is an ex-
tended plaza along a bend in the river with a natural amphitheater and a riverboat dock.
Rosa Parks Museum MUSEUM
( www.trojan.troy.edu/community/rosa-parks-museum ; 251 Montgomery St; adult/child 4-12yr
$7.50/5.50; 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 9am-3pm Sat; ) A tribute to Mrs Parks (who died in
October 2005), the museum, set in front of the bus stop where she took her stand, fea-
 
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