Natchez Trace Parkway
All-American Road The Mississippi stretch (310 mi) of a 443 mi all-american road that also runs through Tennessee and Alabama.
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 4 · on the roadTishomingo State Park · State park · 75 sites · reservable
- Mile 11 · 3.1 mi offPiney Grove · Army Corps of Engineers · 141 sites · reservable
- Mile 67 · 3.1 mi offDavis Lake Campground · Forest Service · 29 sites · reservable
- Mile 116 · on the roadJeff Busby Campground, Milepost 193.1 · National Park Service · 18 sites
- Mile 178 · 2.9 mi offLeake County Water Park Campground · City, county or regional park · reservable
- Mile 178 · 3.9 mi offLow Head Dam Campground · City, county or regional park · reservable
- Mile 184 · 4.6 mi offCoal Bluff Campground · City, county or regional park · reservable
- Mile 186 · 2.0 mi offPRVWSD Upriver Primitive Camping Area · City, county or regional park · reservable
- Mile 194 · 3.1 mi offGoshen Springs Campground · City, county or regional park · reservable
- Mile 204 · 3.7 mi offTimberlake Campground · City, county or regional park · reservable
- Mile 255 · on the roadRocky Springs Campground, Milepost 54.8 · National Park Service · 22 sites
- Mile 300 · 3.0 mi offBob M. Dearing Natchez State Park · State park · 58 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 Tennessee · 100 mi
- Natchez Trace Parkway in Alabama · 33 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.