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Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum

Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, a museum in Alabama
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, a museum in AlabamaThilo Parg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, a museum in Alabama
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Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, a museum in Alabama
Silosarg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, a museum in Alabama
Silosarg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, a museum in Alabama
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Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, a museum in Alabama
Chuck Schultz · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is a museum in Alabama, at a modelled elevation of 190 m. Bald Rock Mountain stands 475 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Unali Park, a park 0.9 miles away. Alabama's Stagecoach Route Through Leeds passes 2.0 miles off.

About

The story

motorsport museum in the United States

Dates from 1995-03-14.

Wikidata Q3634739, matched on coordinates and name (56 m apart).

The record

What the record says

Height
13m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates33.53320, -86.61431
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Unali Park: 0.9 mi
  • Leeds City Park: 3.1 mi
  • Leeds Memorial Park: 3.1 mi
  • Leeds Sports Complex: 3.1 mi
  • Beacon Park: 4.7 mi
Peaks
  • Pilot Knob: 5.5 mi
  • Talladega Hill: 5.6 mi
  • Little Sand Mountain: 5.9 mi
  • Penitentiary Mountain: 8.1 mi
  • Shoal Creek Mountain: 8.4 mi
Historic sites: 19
  • Alabama Veterans Memorial: 5.9 mi
  • Alabama Fallen Warriors Monument: 6.2 mi
  • Statue of Liberty Replica: 6.4 mi
  • Irondale Furnace Historical Marker: 6.7 mi
  • Memorial Airpark: 7.6 mi
Museums: 12
Gardens: 9
Artworks: 8
  • Water Based: 8.1 mi
  • Five Points South: 10.7 mi
  • Vulcan: 10.8 mi
  • Magic City Sign: 11.0 mi
  • Complex Vision Mozaic: 11.0 mi
Attractions: 7
Picnic sites: 7
  • Front Porch: 11.5 mi
  • Lifeguard Gazeebo: 11.6 mi
  • Tilton Arbor: 11.6 mi
  • Cannon Pavillion: 11.6 mi
  • Judson Day Gazeebo: 11.6 mi
Nature reserves: 4
Cliffs: 4
Beaches: 2
  • Spoonwood Lake Beach: 8.6 mi
  • School Bus Island: 18.1 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Bike Repair: 16.6 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Peavine Falls: 17.7 mi
Springs: 1
  • Big Spring: 19.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.4 miles of Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald Rock MountainENE 66°475 m12.1 mi
Signal MountainSSE 168°460 m9.6 mi
Sand MountainSSE 153°447 m8.6 mi
Butler MountainN 360°430 m12.9 mi
Foster MountainN 360°421 m12.3 mi
Cahaba MountainNNE 19°419 m15.6 mi
Saint Clair MountainNNE 19°414 m20.3 mi
Black Oak MountainN 357°413 m11.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2618:58
June solstice05:3819:2420:00
September equinox06:3518:1218:45
December solstice06:4816:0516:43

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F454956647278828176655447
Precip in5.04.95.75.14.94.85.44.44.03.34.24.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Birmingham AP, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/237457026

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