Mobile, Alabama City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Mobile, Alabama Travel Guide has been your connection to Mobile's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Mobile Parks and Attractions
Mobile provides its locals as well as the bed and breakfast traveler with over 45 public parks with a wide array of special attractions and places of interest. To narrow down your choices, ask your bed and breakfast innkeepers for a list of local and personal preferences. The 720-acre Langan Park is home to the Mobile Botanical Gardens with over one hundred acres of flora, featuring the Millie McConnell Rhododendron Garden and the Longleaf Pine Habitat. Langan Park also houses the Mobile Museum of Art, Azalea City Golf Course and Playhouse in the Park. The Bellingrath Gardens and Home were once the fishing camp of Walter Bellingrath, President of Mobile’s Coca Cola Bottling Plant and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Cathedral Square is a performing arts venue and the park layout actually mirrors the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception which overlooks it. The Fort Conde reconstruction is a 4/5 –scale recreation of the original French fort on this same site built in the 1720’s. The downtown Spanish Plaza, honoring the Spanish occupation between 1780 and 1813 features the Arches of Friendship fountain presented to Mobile by the city of Málaga, Spain.
