The Alabama Gulf Coast

The Gulf Coast Region of the United States consists of the coastal States that border the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf States are Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and are in the Southern Region of the United States. The majority of the Gulf Coast shoreline is in Florida and Texas with Mississippi and Alabama having the least amount of coastline.

The waters along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Mississippi are influenced by the Mississippi Sound where massive amounts of silt laden fresh water from the Mississippi River mix with the salt waters of the Gulf of Mexico.  The effects of the sound reach over to the barrier island of Dauphin Island, AL and the mouth of Mobile Bay. 

The effects of the Mississippi Sound play out around Dauphin Island and at the tip of the Fort Morgan Peninsula in Alabama begin the sugar white sands and emerald green waters that stretch on from there to Perdido Key, Pensacola Beach, Navarre Beach, Fort Walton, Destin, San Destin, Seaside,and Panama City Beach, Florida.  This beautiful white sand and blue green water is what makes the Alabama Coast and Florida panhandle such a well liked tourist destination and vacation resort area.

The area has been known as the "Redneck Riviera" for some time and for good reason, it is the closest area of beautiful sand and water for large portions of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi as well as Alabama.  It is an easy days drive from these locations and has become the vacation area of choice for many in those areas. 

The beaches are lined with high rise condos and raised beach houses interspersed with public beach access and numerous State Parks that are well maintained seperating some of the properties.  In addition to the beach, there are numerous bays, canals, and the intracoastal waterway connecting Mobile Bay, Oyster Bay, Wolf Bay, Arnica Bay, Perdido Bay, and Pensacola Bay. It is a paradise for boaters from the small bay boats on up to 100 foot yachts and there are many water front, beach front, bay front, and canal front housing options from bungalows to cottages to condos to very large luxury homes on Ono Island. Marinas are numerous with wet slips and dry stack storage enhancing the waterfront real estate.

The Alabama Gulf Coast has the communities of Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, Fort Morgan, and Ono Island in Baldwin County and the Dauphin Island community in Mobile County.  The interior realty of Baldwin County is mostly timber land and agriculture property(cotton,corn,wheat,soybeans,turf grass, and local truck farm produce).  The industry and commerce along the coastline though is almost 100% tourist and vacation related other than a healthy seafood industry. 

The populations of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are about 5000 permenant residents each and those populations swell to about 100,000 each during the peak condo vacation periods.  Entertainment options are visiting the beach, golf, charter boat fishing trips, dining, and lots of music venues.  

• Beach Real Estate
• AL Gulf Coast Visitors and Convention Bureau
• AL Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce
• Alabama Gulf Coast Real Estate

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