Northwest Alabama (MSL) Airport Car Service

MSL sits about 4 miles southwest of Muscle Shoals in Colbert County, Alabama, accessible via US 72 and SR 20. The airport is jointly owned and operated by the cities of Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, and Sheffield (the Shoals quad cities) and Colbert County. Contour Airlines provides limited scheduled commercial service to Atlanta and Dallas, with general aviation and corporate charter operations rounding out traffic. Our chauffeurs stage at the terminal commercial vehicle lane.

MSL to FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals (the studio where Aretha Franklin recorded I Never Loved a Man, where Wilson Pickett cut Mustang Sally, and where dozens of soul, R&B, and rock recordings were made) runs about 5 to 10 minutes via Avalon Avenue. We handle music heritage tour visitors, recording session musician transfers, and the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio at 3614 Jackson Highway tour transport.

Yes. The Shoals music heritage trail covering FAME Studios, the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio (3614 Jackson Highway), the W C Handy Birthplace and Museum, the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in Tuscumbia, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Rosenbaum House in Florence all sit within 15 to 20 minutes of MSL. We handle full day Shoals music heritage tour transport and visiting music documentary crew logistics.

Yes. Florence and the University of North Alabama (Lions) campus run about 15 to 20 minutes from MSL via US 43 northbound across the Tennessee River. We handle parent weekend transfers, UNA athletic event transport (the Lions are the Division I FCS football program in the ASUN Conference), and graduation week pickups.

Yes. The W C Handy Music Festival (held annually in late July in Florence, honoring W C Handy the Father of the Blues, who was born in Florence in 1873) generates heavy weekend music tourism demand through MSL. We handle festival week airport transfers, venue hopping service across Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia, and corporate hospitality logistics.

Yes. Tuscumbia and Ivy Green (the Helen Keller Birthplace, where the annual Miracle Worker outdoor drama runs each summer) run about 10 to 15 minutes from MSL via US 72. We handle Helen Keller historic site tour transfers, Miracle Worker performance night transport (typically June and July), and Alabama Music Hall of Fame visitor logistics.

Yes. Wilson Dam and the Tennessee Valley Authority Wilson Dam Visitor Center (the dam that anchored the New Deal era TVA development of the Tennessee River and the original power source that drew industry to the Shoals) run about 10 minutes from MSL. We handle daily TVA visitor transfers and engineering history tour groups.

Yes. The Toyota Mazda Manufacturing USA joint plant in Huntsville (about 90 minutes from MSL via US 72 eastbound) and the Polaris Industries off road vehicle plant in Huntsville (about 90 minutes) both generate consistent corporate travel demand through MSL when Huntsville flight availability is limited. We hold standing accounts running daily MSL to Huntsville industrial corridor rotations.

The W C Handy Music Festival runs ten days in late July with performance venues spread across Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. We require three to four weeks of lead time for festival week SUV and Sprinter bookings. The festival draws music heritage tourists from across the country and internationally, and Shoals hotel inventory fills six weeks ahead of festival weekend.

Yes. Dispatch runs around the clock with a live human on the line, and we operate red eye Contour arrivals, 4 am industrial corridor transfers to Huntsville and the Toyota Mazda plant, and late night festival pickups during W C Handy weekend. There is no surcharge for late night or early morning service on standard bookings.