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Spring Break Calendar, The Season Begins

John Mullen • March 2, 2024

The season begins the 1st week of March

Gulf Shores tourism news

Look for a busy spring break during the week of March 11 with as many as 19 public school systems and 25 colleges and universities among those tracked by local tourism officials taking the break in the same week. This represents more than 38 percent of all 113 systems and colleges the CVB collects information about.

 

The week will be a busy one on March 25 as well with both Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Baldwin County having spring break the same week as five other school systems in the state including three of the largest. In total, the weeks of March 11 and March 25 will have breaks from 60 percent of the schools tracked.

 

“In doing a sortable view of the spring break calendar, it looks like the weeks of March 11 and March 25 are when the majority of states we track – our primary drive market states – will have their spring break,” Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Tourism Public Relations Manager Kay Maghan said. “We make the Spring Break Calendar available to all industry partners on the Partner Portal section of our website, and we send out regular forward-looking occupancy levels so that businesses can plan staffing accordingly.”

 

Some of the systems included in the listing gathered annually by Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Tourism are a good drive away, like public school systems in Iowa and Minnesota. But also included in that list are one from Louisiana, six in Mississippi, three in Tennessee, three in Texas and three in Alabama. Alabama systems included Huntsville, Madison and Tuscaloosa County.

 

As far as in-state colleges and universities, spring breakers the week of March 11 include Alabama, UAB and Troy. But several colleges within easy driving distance from Alabama’s sugar white sands are on break the same week, including LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Southern Miss, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Kentucky.

 

Eight colleges in Texas are on break the week of March 11, including Texas, Texas A&M and Houston. Others include Missouri and Louisville.

 

Auburn will have spring break the week of March 4.

 

Alabama public schools on break the week of March 25 include Shelby County, Montgomery County, Jefferson County, Hoover, and Birmingham.

 

Also, the week of March 25 five systems from Indiana, three from Michigan, one from Missouri, one from Ohio and three from Wisconsin. Colleges taking a break that same week include Tulane, Spring Hill, Pensacola State and West Florida.



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