Free
- Art Crawl (Every 1st Thursday of the month, 5-9pm)
- Birmingham Artwalk
- Birmingham Museum of Art
- Botanical Gardens & Aldridge Gardens
Pepper Place Market
- Browse in the shops in Homewood
- Civil Rights Heritage Trail (Kelly Ingram Park Area)
- Moss Rock Preserve
- Pepper Place – Farmer’s Market every Saturday, 7am-noon, April-December (watch the food demonstration at 9am and get the Piper & Leaf tea in the mason jar)
- Railroad Park
- Rainbow Tunnel selfie
- Rotary Trail
- Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve
- Symphony in the Park in June (Railroad Park)
- Reed Books (Legit bookstore downtown)
- Sloss Furnace Tour
Sibling selfie in the Rainbow Tunnel
- Woodlawn Street Market (4 times a year)
- 2nd & Charles (used bookstore)
For a Fee
- Arc Stories at the Avon Theater
- Art on the Rocks (Summer)
- Barons Game
- Birmingham Restaurant Week (August)
- Birmingham Zoo
- Breakout Birmingham & Locked In
- Civil Rights Museum
- Contra Dancing at the YWCA downtown
- Drive In Movie (Leeds or Harpersville)
- Gip’s Juke Joint in Bessemer (live music venue)
Climb to the observation desk at Vulcan for a great view of the city
- Greek Food Festival (September)
- Lebanese Food Festival (Spring)
- Lyric Theater
- McWane Center (Especially for kids)
- Middle Eastern Food Festival (Fall)
- Movie at Alabama Theater (Christmas/Summer)
- Oak Mountain State Park
- Red Mountain Park (Zip Trip, Treetop Challenge Course, Adventure Tower, Seg Tours)
- Red Mountain Theater (Summer Play/Musical)
- Rickwood Field (oldest surviving ball park in the US – built in 1910 for the Barons)
- Salsa Showdown (May/June) at Avondale Brewery (Contest for which company has the best chips, salsa, and guac)
- Sloss Fest (Summer)
- Vulcan (Ride to the observation deck, tour the museum, and picnic at the park)
- Zyp Bikes (Downtown)