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Greensboro, AL
334-218-6025
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Experiences & Attractions

Things to Do in & near Greensboro

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Black Belt Adventures

Black Belt Adventures is a non-profit organization promoting outdoor recreation and tourism in Central Alabama. It offers itineraries for hunting, fishing, horseback riding, canoeing on the Cahaba and Black Warrior rivers, golfing and sport shooting.

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Become a Biscuiteer

The Reverie Mansion is home to the kitchen of celebrated chef Scott Peacock. He explores the mysterious secrets of southern biscuit making with heirloom ingredients. In intimate, half-day sessions the James Beard award-winning chef reveals some of the mystery behind these gems of southern cooking.

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Gee's Bend Quilts

The quilts of Gee's Bend snap and wave in the sun as the annual fall festival brings visitors to the community of formerly enslaved workers on Joseph Gee's Plantation. A deep bend in the Alabama River isolated the women who maintained and strengthened cultural traditions of quilt making. Today their fabrics are considered a critical contribution to modern art through the quilts' abstract shapes, patterns and colors. Museums across the world collect Gee's Bend quilts as important expressions of African American culture. Appreciation of the art and the visitors it brings is increasing economic opportunity to the entire area.

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Birding in the Black Belt

Every summer, hundreds of bird lovers gather in the Alabama heat to watch farmers mowing fields full of grass and grasshoppers. Quickly, the skies fill with kites. Not the man-made kind of kites, but raptors, cousins of hawks. They swoop from the skies, catching grasshoppers on the wing. Swallow-tailed kites and Mississippi kites delight the eco-tourists as a main attraction to the Alabama Audubon festival in Greensboro called Birding in the Black Belt. Year-round birding trips showcase avian life from the national forests to the Gulf of Mexico and its barrier islands, rich with unusual birds during spring and fall migration.

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Great Golf

The Robert Trent Jones Golfing Trail brings golfing enthusiasts from around the world to play golf in Alabama. Half a million people a year play rounds on the 26 courses at eleven sites of champion-caliber greens across the state.

Other courses near Evelyn Bed & Breakfast include the Ravine Golf Course in Demopolis, the public Green County golf course in Eutaw and the semi-private course at Marion Military Institute.

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Rivers Alive

Two great rivers flow near Evelyn Bed & Breakfast in Greensboro. The Black Warrior and the Cahaba rivers are critical keepers of environmental diversity. Two riverkeeper organizations serve as promoters of the rivers and protectors of the rivers’ health. Each watershed’s non-profit organization includes a dedicated Riverkeeper defending the basins with rigorous scientific testing and popular guided tours. The Cahaba Lily blooms in May and June, bringing welcome attention to these unique flowers that require clean shallow rushing water to thrive. Canoe trips arranged by the Riverkeeper along the Cahaba are popular ways to appreciate the blooming season, between Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day.

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Marion Military Institute

Families come to Marion, Alabama, 20 miles from Greensboro, to support their young family members preparing for military careers. Since 1842, the oldest military junior college in the nation has given students a disciplined environment for building leadership skills. Some of the 320 students on campus prepare for an appointment in the US Service Academies. Others aim for military, National Guard and military reserve service. About 40% of the cadets work toward a civilian career.

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Civil Rights

Selma sits at the center of the American battle for human rights. The Bloody Sunday attack March 7, 1965, by Alabama state troopers on voting rights marchers over the Edmund Pettus Bridge brings commemorators back to the bridge every spring. The violence here just months after passage of the Civil Rights Act showed the world unforgettable images of some Americans’ anger at allowing African Americans to register to vote.

The National Voting Rights Museum sits at the foot of the bridge.

It offers a rich collection of exhibits from Alabama’s fight for civil rights in Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham and across the rural South.

This history inspired a festival called Photographic Nights of Selma bringing artists from around the world to a fall festival for photography as a bridge to understanding each other.