Celebrate independence, a storied history + vaulting to new heights in Alabama’s oldest city

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A pole vaulter competes in the 2024 Dauphin Street Vault event in downtown Mobile. (Bryan Harmening-MobTown Photography / Mobile Sports Authority)

Our nation’s independence and heritage are top of mind more than ever around the Fourth of July, so we took a look at our state’s oldest city to curate an adventure back in time that’s far from a dusty history lesson.

If you visit Mobile in July, you’ll discover bold celebrations, joyful music and even pole vaulting in the streets(!)—all in less than four hours’ drive time from Birmingham. Who’s with us?

Read on to learn more about when to go and what to do, see and eat for a richer sense of what’s made this place so enduring for over 300 years.

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