Best Rainy-Day Activities on Perdido Key & Orange Beach

Weather happens. These are the indoor and under-cover places that turn a rainy afternoon into a good one anyway — museums, aquariums, shopping, and the kind of lunch that makes you forget it's pouring.

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   OWA Parks & Resort $$$ · Orange Beach (AL)

   The amusement park in Foley. Outdoor coasters + indoor waterpark + Downtown OWA shopping district. The rainy-day answer for a family.

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   Artworks Local Art & Gifts Perdido Key (FL)

   The Key's only on-island art gallery, holding down Villagio since 2008.

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   Coastal Arts Center of Orange Beach Orange Beach (AL)

   A free 10,000-square-foot gallery on Wolf Bay where you can also blow your own glass.

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   National Naval Aviation Museum $ · Perdido Key (FL)

   Free, world-class, indoor. Dozens of aircraft, real Blue Angels jets, an IMAX. The closest thing to a museum-must on the Gulf Coast.

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   Orange Beach History Museum Orange Beach (AL)

   The town's whole story — Native American to fishing village — in a 1910 schoolhouse behind City Hall.

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   Orange Beach Public Library Orange Beach (AL)

   The rainy-day answer with kids that costs exactly nothing — and a genuine locals' hub the rest of the year.

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   Perdido Artist Gallery & Gifts Perdido Key (FL)

   A co-op of 60-plus local artists — and yes, you can take the glass classes.

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   Tanger Outlets Foley $$ · Orange Beach (AL)

   The big outlet center in Foley. Polo, Nike, Coach, Under Armour, plus the food court and the movie theater. The shopping rainy day.

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   The Wharf at Orange Beach $$ · Orange Beach (AL)

   Marina + amphitheater + shopping + dining + ferris wheel + mini golf. The 'a lot at once' Gulf Coast option. Pre-concert dinner or rainy-afternoon kid plan.

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