FAME Recording Studios
Under $25Take a guided tour of Studios A and B, where Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and Etta James recorded.

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A 2,550-acre Alabama state park on Wheeler Lake offering a resort lodge, golf, a marina, camping, and trails.
4401 McLean Drive, Rogersville, AL 35652-2916 · Rogersville, AL
Joe Wheeler State Park is a resort-style state park on the shores of Wheeler Lake in north Alabama. Its facilities include a waterfront lodge with a restaurant and meeting space, an 18-hole golf course, a full-service marina, lakeside cottages, cabins, a group lodge, and a campground with many full-hookup sites. Visitors can fish, take pontoon eco tours, use a sandy beach, and hike or mountain bike on park trails. Each fall the park hosts a gathering of boaters traveling the Great Loop waterway.
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