Natchez Trace Parkway

Day 1 · <0.1 mi (<0.1 km)

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   Cypress Swamp

   milepost 122, near Canton; boardwalk loop through tupelo and bald cypress in an old Pearl River channel

   Morning · 30 min · free

   Walk the 0.4-mile boardwalk loop among bald cypress and water tupelo standing in the water.

Day 2 · <0.1 mi (<0.1 km)

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   Rocky Springs

   milepost 54.8; site of a vanished town, with its 1837 church, cemetery and two rusting safes

   Morning · 45 min · free

   Follow the short loop through the old town site past the cisterns and safes, then climb up to the church and its cemetery.

Day 3 · <0.1 mi (<0.1 km)

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   Sunken Trace

   milepost 41.5; short walk down a stretch of the Old Trace worn deep into the soil

   Morning · 20 min · free

   Walk the 600-foot path along the old roadbed, between banks worn high by two centuries of feet and hooves.

Day 4 · <0.1 mi (<0.1 km)

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   Windsor Ruins

   Claiborne County, off Highway 552 past Alcorn State University; 23 columns of a mansion that burned in 1890

   Any time · 30 min

   Walk the trail around the column perimeter and read the signs about the owners and the people enslaved here.

Day 5 · <0.1 mi (<0.1 km)

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   Mount Locust

   milepost 15.5; inn and plantation house begun by 1780, one of the two stands left on the Trace

   Morning · 45 min · free

   Walk uphill from the information center to the house, then follow the half-mile trail network to the grape arbor, the brick kiln and the cemeteries of the owners and of the enslaved workers.

Day 6 · <0.1 mi (<0.1 km)

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   Emerald Mound

   milepost 10.3, near Natchez; eight-acre ceremonial mound of the Mississippian period

   Morning · 45 min · free

   Walk the 400-foot path up to the eight-acre plateau and look out over the countryside from the top of the mound.