Noccalula Falls

Noccalula Falls is a beautiful 90-foot waterfall surrounded by the same-named park. It's one of the state's most frequented natural sites, and it's located near Gadsden, approximately an hour and a half's drive southeast of Huntsville. You can find there not only a wonderful waterfall but also caverns and a leisurely stroll through the Botanical Gardens.

Noccalula, according to folklore, preferred to plunge over the 90-foot falls on her wedding day rather than marry the affluent chief her father desired. At the falls that tumble into the Black Creek ravine, there's a nine-foot-tall monument of her. Following that, her father declared that the waterfall will always be associated with his daughter, and it has.