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Overview

Owens Cross Roads is a small town with a population of 1,521 people as shown by the 2010 survey. It has easy access to neighboring towns and cities in the Huntsville Metropolitan Area of the state of Georgia. It is also just 110 miles from the Tennessee capital and renowned center of country music, Nashville.

Fast Facts

• Ordinary families in Owens Cross Roads are usually better off than ordinary families in other parts of Alabama.
• More than 60 percent of the adults in the town are married.
• About 94 percent of town residents use their cars to commute to work.
• Most homes in Owens Cross Roads cost almost $258,000.
• The cost of living in the town is higher by almost 12 percent than the average in the rest of the country.
• Ordinary public schools in the US invest $5,678 per student while Owen Cross Roads only invests $4,538.
• Unemployment in the town is 7.4 percent and in the US, 9.1 percent.

Restaurants and Dining

Tortora's is the place for unique and “award-winning” pizzas with toppings that combine ingredients such as cacciatore, mozzarella, caramelized onions, chorizo, fresh mushrooms, green peppers, black olives and fresh basil. Service is good despite the crowds. Tortora's also serves pasta such as Tortellini Carbonara and baked ziti that are just as flavorful as the pizza. Grandmother's House, meanwhile, offers good old Southern cooking served in a period house. Fried green tomatoes, sticky ribs and crispy catfish are delicious that they almost taste like Grandma's cooking. The Apollo Café, on the other hand, features a BLT with a Southern twist—bacon paired with fried green tomatoes, basil mayonnaise, and buffalo mozzarella. Other in-house favorites include the Apollo Burger, coconut cake and honeyed pork chops.

Accommodation Tips

The following are two highly recommended hotels that are nearest Owens Cross Roads. The new Hilton Garden Inn Huntsville South gets thumbs up for cleanliness, comfort, good service, convenient location and attractive décor. Both the fitness and business centers are well-furnished and stocked. The hotel is located in a safe neighborhood, and is 8.8 miles away from Owens Cross Roads. The Embassy Suites Huntsville, 12 miles from Owens Cross Roads, is another good option. The guest rooms of the hotel are immaculately clean and furnished with a TV set, a wet bar, refrigerator and microwave. The bathrooms are quite spacious and the staff is friendly, too. Daily breakfast is first class, with eggs cooked to order, waffles, meat items, yogurt and fruit, and good coffee.

Best Museum

The US Space and Rocket Center is widely considered to be the best museum in the world on manned space flight hardware. It features the Davidson Center for Space Exploration, almost 500 feet in length, 63 feet high and 90 feet wide, and suspended ten feet in the air. Visitors can study the history of space exploration. The center has operated since 1970 and has been visited by 12 million people as of writing.