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For those of you who are interested in doing a trip on the Natchez Trace Parkway, my husband and I visited the Trace Valentines’ day week 3 years ago and we stayed at B&B's along the way. We found the Natchez Trace Bed & Breakfast Reservation Service online, and booked 4 nights along the way. Many of the B&B’s were beautiful historic homes that offered wonderful breakfasts before our start the next day.
We flew into Nashville and rented a car, (one way rental.) We visited the Hermitage, President Andrew Jackson’s home, and then began our backwards journey along the trace. We spent the first night at a B&B just south of Nashville.
Our favorite source of information for this trip was found online in the archives of PRM, Public Radio of Mississippi. This info was transcripts of radio shows from 1996 and 1997. I think they used to sell this along with music about the trace. The transcripts of this NPR program are still online and I copied the transcripts, most of them just a paragraph or two long, into a word document and then printed it up. This was full of great history and insights.
We visited several battlefields and enjoyed all the stops listed in the NPR transcripts. We spent one night near Corinth and another in Kosciusko. We visited Emerald Mound near the southern terminus, found our B&B in Natchez and had Valentine’s dinner at a fancy restaurant nearby. The next morning we turned in our rental car to the airport in Jackson and flew home.
I would not recommend this kind of in-depth trip for small children, but for the two of us, it was a fascinating and romantic journey!
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We're getting ready to do a day trip up the Trace at the end of June. We live in Clinton, MS and drive all the way up to Nashville in one day, spend the night, then drive over to Gatlinburg for the week. This will be our third time to do this trip. On our last time (2006) I found a neat book that has info about the Trace in general, plus info about each of the stops along the route.
As I was saying, we've done this twice already, both times with our son - he was 2 the first time, and 4 the second time, he's 7 now. We pack picnic lunches and our plug-in cooler, and eat "out" all day - morning snack at one of the smaller picnic areas or even a trailhead, lunch and top-off the gas tank at Jeff Busby, snack at Colbert Ferry, supper at Meriwether Lewis. We walk a few of the short trails along the way to stretch our legs and stop from time to time at some of the other sites - we're never driving for very long at one time, so there's not really a chance to get bored. We always stop at the main Visitor Center in Tupelo.
My husband's got a POI file (in 4 parts) you can check out:
Note that some of the POIs might be slightly off, based on the overlay of the sat maps and road maps. We're going to be checking and updating them on this upcoming trip.
Thanks for mentioning the info on the MPR archives - I'll definitely check that out to add to my collection.
I've been looking on the MPB and PRM website for the archives of the shows you mentioned, but I'm not turning up anything except some previous TV shows about various places along the Trace. Would you happen to have a link to the transcripts?
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