Visitors to Huntsville's Big Spring International Park enjoy the beauty of downtown. (File photo)
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Huntsville, a city becoming accustomed to accolades, has made another national list.
The city has been selected by Where to Retire, a magazine designed to help retirees with relocation decisions, as a top retirement town.
Huntsville will be profiled in the magazine's January/February 2012 issue. That issue will be available on Dec. 20.
"Huntsville is a growing city, yet it maintains the charm and hospitatlity of a small Southern town,'' said Mary Lu Abbott, the Where to Retire editor. "Retirees easily stay busy, volunteering for local charities, enjoying a live performance at a theater or participating in one of the country's largest adult-learning programs at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.''
Among Huntsville's other recent honors: one of the world's top 10 smartest cities by Forbes; the nation's fourth-strongest building market by BusinessWeek; and America's top midsize city to launch and grow a business by Fortune Small Business magazine.