Natchez Trace Parkway
All-American Road The Alabama stretch (33 mi) of a 443 mi all-american road that also runs through Mississippi and Tennessee.
About the Natchez Trace Parkway
Native Americans, Kaintuck boatmen, post riders, government officials, and soldiers all moved across this trail, creating a vital link between the Mississippi Territory and the fledgling United States. Pass through forests, cypress swamps, and farmland to meander through the rock-studded hills of Tennessee, cotton fields in Alabama, and Mississippi's rural countryside.
Federal Highway Administration, America's Byways's own description, in its words. Byway page on America's Byways.
Designations: Parkway, All-American Road, National Forest Scenic Byway.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 33 · 4.3 mi offTishomingo State Park · State park · 75 sites · reservable
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
The same byway in other states
- Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi · 310 mi
- Natchez Trace Parkway in Tennessee · 100 mi
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.