Things To Do

Visitors are encouraged to drive the historic route from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL.

• Selma Interpretive Center serves as the Welcome Center to the trail located at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The SIC offers a video, exhibits, and a small bookstore.  The Selma Interpretive Center opened on March 2, 2011. 
  
• While in Selma visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Street Walking Tour which includes Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, First Baptist Church, Carver Homes and wayside exhibits.
  
  
• Other sites of interest in Selma include the National Voting Rights Museum & park (privately owned), Slavery & Civil War Museum, Old Depot Museum, Smitherman Museum and Edmund Pettus Bridge.
  
  
• The Lowndes County Interpretive Center was the first of three planned National Park Service visitor centers along the Trail route. The Interpretive Center is located midway between Selma and Montgomery. View a 30 minute historic video, hear voices of the March, and touch and feel interactive exhibits--these are just a few of the experiences available in the Interpretive Center. The Lowndes County Interpretive Center opened on August 25, 2006.
  
• In Montgomery visit the Rosa Parks Museum, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & parsonage, Alabama State Capitol and the Civil Rights Monument.

Contact Selma/Dallas or Montgomery Chamber of Commerce for other recreational and historical sites.