Some notable natural wonders in Alabama include:Natural Bridge rock, the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies Cathedral Caverns in Marshall County Ecor Rouge in Fairhope DeSoto Caverns in Childersburg Noccalula Falls in Gadsden Dismals Canyon near Phil Campbell Stephens Gap Cave in Jackson County Little ...Read more

Alabama enjoys a lengthy growing season of up to 300 days in the southern part of the state.

The Wetumpka crater is a 5-mile (8 km)-wide meteorite impact crater located in Elmore County, just north of Montgomery. It is considered Alabama’s greatest natural disaster, created by a meteorite impact about 80 million years ago.

Of the 383 mollusk species, 113 have never been collected outside of Alabama.

Alabama is 23rd in the amount of surface water in the United States.

Alabama receives an average of 56 inches (1,400 mm) of rainfall annually.

Organized insurgent groups in Alabama included The Ku Klux Klan, the Pale Faces, Knights of the White Camellia, Red Shirts, and the White League.

“Dixie Alley” refers to the area of Alabama and Mississippi that is most affected by tornadoes, as distinct from the Tornado Alley of the Southern Plains.

Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.

Snowfall is less frequent along Alabama’s Gulf Coast, sometimes going several years without any snowfall.