Natchez Trace Parkway
National Parkway — All American Road · Tupelo, Mississippi
Four hundred and forty-four miles of parkway from Natchez to Nashville, following a route that was a game trail before it was a Native trade road and a road before it was a highway. Its great period was brief: from the 1780s to about 1820, boatmen known as Kaintucks floated flatboats of grain and pork down the Mississippi, sold cargo and boat together in Natchez or New Orleans because neither could be sailed back upstream, and walked home north up the Trace. The National Park Service built the parkway over that line between 1938 and 2005 — no commercial traffic, no billboards, no traffic lights, and a fifty-mile-an-hour limit for the whole length.
2680 Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, Mississippi, 38804, United States
Open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and FREE. The Parkway Visitor Center at Tupelo, milepost 266, is generally 9 AM to 4:30 PM and closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Individual sites, exhibits and campgrounds along the route keep their own hours; some close seasonally. Sections close for ice and for storm damage.
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