Directions From Birmingham Via I-59 North

For those of you heading up from - or through - Birmingham, there is an alternate route to the farm and the hotel, should you be staying there.

Take I-59 North to exit 181, which should be named Rainbow City/Highway 77.

The distance is around 50 miles from the I-20/I-59 split.

To get to the hotel, take a left at the exit onto 77N and it should be just on the other side of the bridge, on the right, across the street from Walmart.

To go directly to the farm, take a right at the top of the ramp onto Highway 77 and proceed to Hwy 411 - just shy of 4 miles. There will be an Exxon on the right; a Huddle House on the left.

Take a right on US 411 (Rainbow Drive) and go 5.6 miles to Riddles Bend Road.

There will be a bridge going across a fairly wide creek and the road you want is to the left just before the bridge.

If you cross the bridge and see the St. Clair County sign; you've gone too far.

Riddles Bend Road will skirt the creek (Canoe Creek) for a while; it will be on your right.

At the first fork (there will be a fire station in the fork) bear right.

At the second fork (there will be a big beige house in the center of the fork), bear right onto Babe Jackson Drive.

Take the first left onto Guy Hood Road.

Parking will be on the left, in the field next to the white house - the only house on the left side of the road.

The ceremony is at this house; the reception will be in the barn across the road.