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Why Alabama is a forest road state, and what that asks of a vehicle

Federal agencies hold 875,707 acres in Alabama, which is 2.7 percent of the state. The Forest Service has 673,400 of that, the Department of Defense 147,589, the Fish and Wildlife Service 34,041, the Park Service 17,540 and the Bureau of Land Management 3,137. The national BLM route layer this site sums for motorised mileage holds no Alabama records at all, so no BLM road figure appears anywhere on this page.

Acres of federal land 1: 875,707; 2.7 percent of Alabama. The BLM holds 3,137 of it and the national route layer records no BLM roads in the state
Acres across four national forests 5: 673,000+; Bankhead 181,988, Talladega 394,960, Conecuh 84,224, Tuskegee 11,348, in 17 counties and six ranger districts. The CRS figure for the state is 673,400
Designated OHV trails in the whole state 7: 2; Kentuck in the Talladega and Flint Creek in the Bankhead. The Conecuh, the Tuskegee and two of the three Talladega districts have none
Federal campgrounds a vehicle can reach 4: 25; 19 Corps of Engineers, four Forest Service, two Park Service. Twenty-one can be booked ahead and one is first come only
Cheaha Mountain, the highest point in Alabama 2: 2,407 ft; Cleburne County. Our own 3DEP query at the summit reads 2,406 feet. The low point is sea level on the Gulf of Mexico
Acres of wilderness, in three areas 11: 42,218; Sipsey in the Bankhead, Cheaha and Dugger Mountain in the Talladega, designated between 1977 and 1999. Motors and mechanised equipment are barred from all three
Rain a year, the 1991 to 2020 average 55: 56.88 in; Over 60 inches on the Gulf Coast and in the northeast, 52 to 54 in the Black Belt. The mean annual temperature is 63.6 degrees
Acres of wildlife management area 42: 750,000+; 366,670 acres state and Forever Wild, 345,323 federal under cooperative agreement, roughly 38,000 privately owned and leased in kind
Of the Sipsey Fork designated wild and scenic 30: 61.4 mi; 36.4 miles wild and 25 scenic, designated October 28, 1988, in the Bankhead National Forest
State parks, about 45,300 acres 43: 21; Land and water together, run by the State Parks Division. The parks service itself publishes more than 48,000 acres for the same 21 properties
Acres secured by the Forever Wild Land Trust 52: 284,000+; The trust owns 223,466 of them. Its buying has added to nine state parks and 20 wildlife management areas and built more than 363 miles of trail
America’s Byways in Alabama 31: 4; Two All-American Roads, the Natchez Trace Parkway and the Selma to Montgomery March Byway, and two National Scenic Byways, the Talladega Scenic Drive and Alabama’s Coastal Connection
Scenic drive the Forest Service publishes for the state 22: 1; The Talladega Scenic Drive is the only named driving route across all four Alabama national forests. Everything else is an unnamed forest road on a motor vehicle use map
The Talladega Scenic Drive, as FHWA measures it 33: 26.4 mi; The Forest Service gives the same byway as 29 miles. FHWA allows an hour for it and charges a dollar a person for the side trip into Cheaha State Park
Of Pinhoti National Recreation Trail in the Talladega 23: 140 mi; Piedmont to Sylacauga, in the forest’s own Talladega handout. The same forest’s wilderness page calls it 100 miles of moderate to difficult hiking. It is a walking trail, not a driving one
Combined length of the Black Warrior and Tombigbee lakes 35: 457 mi; Six lakes, Demopolis, Coffeeville, Warrior, Oliver, Holt and Bankhead, and 39,800 surface acres of water, all of it Mobile District
Of shoreline on Walter F. George Lake 37: 640 mi; The lake runs 85 miles down the Chattahoochee on the Georgia line and carries 13 Corps day use parks and four campgrounds
Of Natchez Trace Parkway, 52,289 acres 25: 444 mi; Across Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, averaging 800 feet wide. An NPS unit since 1938 and finished in 2005
Acres in Oak Mountain, the largest state park 46: 11,861; South of Birmingham, with more than 100 miles of trail. Cheaha, on the state high point, is 2,799 acres
Acres in Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge 50: 7,000; Approximately, on the coast beside Gulf State Park and the Coastal Connection byway. No vehicle may be driven on the sand anywhere along it