Milepost 198.6 – Old Trace is a portion of the original roadway leads into the woods.
Attractions
Milepost 201.3 – Picnic area.
Milepost 203.5 – Pigeon Roost – Folsom’s stand and trading post, operated by Nathaniel and David Folsom, stood near here. Millions of passenger pigeons, now extinct, roosted here.
Milepost 213.3 – Line Creek – Boundary between lands of the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes.
Milepost 221.4 – Old Trace – This is part of the original trace crosses the parkway here.
Milepost 232.4 – Bynum Mounds – Prehistoric people built these mounds between 2,100 and 1,800 years ago. Exhibits describe their life.
Milepost 233.2 – Witch Dance – Picnic area, Horse trail access, bike only campground, restrooms.
Milepost 243.1 – Davis Lake – Access point to U.S. Forest Service picnicking and summer camping area.
Milepost 243.3 – Hernando de Soto – Spanish explorer of the Mississippi spent the winter of 1540 – 1541 near here.
Milepost 245.6 – Monroe Mission – Chickasaws learned various trades at the mission. Picnic area.
Milepost 249.6 – Tockshish – This area was settled in 1770 by John Macintosh. After the Natchez Trace was declared a National Post Road in 1800, the stand became the […]
Milepost 261.8 – Chickasaw Village Site – Exhibits describe daily life and early history at a Chickasaw village site.
Milepost 263.8 – Old Town Overlook – Enjoy views of Old Town Creek and adjacent floodplain.
Milepost 296.4 – Confederate Gravesites- A short walk on the old trace takes you to the graves of the 13 unknown Confederate soldiers. For more information, visit www.tupelo.net
Milepost 283.3- Donivan Slough- This is a self-guiding trail. Allow 20 minutes to walk through an area where occasional flooding influences the variety of plants.
Milepost 286.7- Pharr Mound. This 90-acre complex of eight mounds was built from about 1,800 to 2,000 years ago
Milepost 293.2- Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway and Jamie L. Whitten Bridge. The waterway makes 459 miles navigable between the Gulf of Mexico and Tennessee River. The waterway and nearby visitor center are administrered […]
Milepost 293.4- Bay Springs Lake- This is the access for the lake and dam.
