Huntsville Attractions

Treehouses come in all shapes and sizes. If you have a set image in your mind about what a treehouse is, then you'll have to disregard the standard picture of a house in a tree and come to the Huntsville Botanical Garden to see a variety of treehouses that are on display through September 2010.

On February 21, 2010 Burritt on the Mountain was steeped with the sounds, music, smells, trivia and fashions of the 1950's as they celebrated Burritt's 55th Anniversary with a "Historic Doll Tea Party."

Each year the Huntsville Botanical Garden hosts "Dog Days" in January and February when not as much is going on in the Garden. One Saturday in February is tagged "Bow Wow Bone-anza" with a day filled with fun for the canines.

Burritt on the Mounain gives visitors a chance to see what life was like in rural 1850's in Madison County. Dairy Day highlights farm living with cows, goats, sheep, mules, minatur hoses and chickes.

The spring and summer of 2009 will go down as the time when Big Bugs infested the Huntsville Botanical Garden, much to the delight of youngsters of all ages. David Rogers' Big Bugs sculptures are created from all natural materials: whole trees, cut green saplings, dry branches and other native forest materials.

Each year, the Huntsville Botanical Garden features a trail of scarecrows in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Take a look at these and get ideas for your own creation.

Huntsville Botanical Garden is located at 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue in Huntsville. Their hours are 9-5 Monday-Saturday and 12-5 pm on Sunday. For more information, call 830-4447. Here's a sampling of photos highlighting different seasons and themes at Huntsville Botanical Garden.

Each year, First Baptist Church in Huntsville gives a lovely gift to the community. It's the "Annual Living Christmas Tree," an inspirational concert to help us focus on the "reason for the season" and lead by Billy Orton, Minister of Music and Worship. Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without this manificent program.

Cornfield Mazes are the rage all across America. The Brownsboro Cornfield Maize is the biggest one near Huntsville with over 14 acres and many special activities and events for the whole family.

The Alabama Veterans Museum in Athens, Alabama has over 2,000 artifacts, medals, uniforms and wartime equipment on display from the Revolutionary War until present day. There is also over 1,000 books and 200 videos in their library.

The Alabama Veterans Museum in Athens, Alabama has over 2,000 artifacts, medals, uniforms and wartime equipment on display from the Revolutionary War until present day. There is also over 1,000 books and 200 videos in their library.

There's a new fun exhibit in town for the kids running from Sept. 30, 2006 through January 14, 2007. Now everyone can have fun while learning all about the weather. "Ms. Frizzle and her class at Scholastics The Magic School Bus™ Kicks Up A Storm!" is at Sci-Quest Hands-on Science Center.

The Huntsville Museum of Art features several different three different art exhibitions at a time throughout the year, a wonderful gift shop, Signature Art Gallery and Cafe Palette.

The Huntsville Botanical Garden's Festival of Flowers is in April of every year. You'll find tens of thousands of blooming tulips, daffodils, dogwoods, azaleas, and a picturesque wildflower trail showcasing the best of spring in Huntsville each year.

Burritt on the Mountain features the Burritt Mansion, restored 19th Century log structures in its living history site, a rural church, a multipurpose building with a classroom, large meeting room, Museum Store and administrative offices, eight miles of nature trails, five acres of picnic areas, and heirloom gardens which supply produce for...

Dr. Burritt's 1949 Sea Foam Green DeSoto has been completely restored.

EarlyWorks Children's Museum is the largest hands-on history museum in the South. Some of the fun activities include: Hearing stories from the talking tree, playing a tune on the giant-sized instruments at the Alabama bandstand and trying your hand at building a house in the interactive architecture exhibit. You can also walk the gangplank and explore a 46-foot keelboat, stroll through Alabama's agricultural and industrial history and try on 1800's clothing in the Federal house.

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, formerly the Alabama Space & Rocket Center, opened in March of 1970. It was the brainchild of Dr. Wernher von Braun who, back in the 1960's, approached local leaders with the idea of creating a museum for what were to become the artifacts of the space program. It is now the biggest attraction in Alabama.

The Alabama Music Hall of Fame, located in Tuscumbia, opened July 26, 1990. The 12,500 square foot exhibit hall is filled with information, memorabilia and recordings from musicians from Alabama.

If you think that Sci-Quest is just a science museum for the kids, think again. Every time I've been there, the adults (and me!) are busy trying all the fun experiments and science demostrations.

St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Bailey Cove Road in Huntsville started Lobster Fest in 1993.

Harmony Park Safari in Huntsville is home to a lot of exotic animals on the 30 acre preserve.

Harmony Park is a federally licensed nature preserve of free-ranging exotic & endangered animals. Remain in your car on a two-mile route to see zebras, zebus, antelope, buffalo, a camel, ostriches, pythons & crocodiles.

Sci-Quest Hands-On Science Center in Huntsville presents "Bones: An Exhibit Inside You" through January 8, 2006.

The Huntsville/Madison County Botanical Garden is the perfect background for a trail of creative scarecrows each year.

The Huntsville/Madison County Botanical Garden is the perfect background for a trail of creative scarecrows each year.

The Huntsville/Madison County Botanical Garden is the perfect background for a trail of creative scarecrows each year.

The Huntsville/Madison County Botanical Garden is the perfect background for a trail of creative scarecrows each year.

The Huntsville/Madison County Botanical Garden is the perfect background for a trail of creative scarecrows each year.

Members of the original Rocket Team that designed and tested the Saturn V moon rocket gathered at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center for the Second Annual Saturn/Apollo Reunion.

With 14 acres of corn planted and our new mind-boggling design now created, the Summerlin/Blakely families are bringing the "MAIZE craze" back to Huntsville, Alabama.

The Huntsville Botanical Garden has made a cake in honor of Huntsville's 200th birthday.

One of the highlights of the Huntsville Botanical Garden from May to the end of September is the Tessman Butterfly House. Kids and adults alike flock to it to enter into the magical world of the butterfly.

The 2005 WaterWorks attractions at the Huntsville Botanical Garden features six different stations to get the kids all wet.

The Huntsville Botanical Garden celebrates Huntsville's diversity with a presentation of six national flags from various countries. The flags are made up of different colors of flowers to represent each country.

Photos and articles about The Huntsville/Madison County Botanical Garden.

Photo and articles about exhibits at the Huntsville Museum of Art and other art galleries in North Alabama.

For those who have always been fascinated with the art of quilt making, the Museum offers A Stitch in Time: One Family%u2019s Legacy

"Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination" traveling exhibit will be on display in Huntsville June 25 through September 6, 2010. The Star Wars exhibit features props and costumes from George Lucas's six "Star Wars" films and highlights the science behind them, including space travel, mechanical prosthetics, robotics, and levitation technology.

The 2010 Scarecrow Trail at the Huntsville Botanical Garden features a Hollywood theme and depicts scarecrows from various movies. There are also...

October is a busy month at Tate Farms in Meridianville, Alabama. In 1996, the farm started their pumpkin tour business and have become known for their educational farm programs for younger students and their public tours for the whole family.

Huntsville Botanical Garden's Galaxy of Lights is a magnificent mile-long holiday light extravaganza featuring larger-than-life animated light displays. Special exhibits include nursery rhymes, a holiday village, dinosaurs, wild animals, a magical twinkling icicle forest, garden scenes, a patriotic display featuring red, white, and blue...

A "T-Rex named Sue" exhibit showcases the most complete tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered. More than 7 million people have seen Sue during the tour, which has visited museums all over the world. This exhibit was created by The Field Museum, Chicago, USA, and made possible through the generosity of McDonald’s Corporation.