Southern historic route

Stretching from Natchez, Mississippi, on the Mississippi River, northeast to Nashville, Tennessee, the Natchez Trace Parkway is a wonderful road maintained by the National Park Service.

Based on an ancient trail, its earliest users were buffalo, then Native Americans and then white settlers. Today it is a paved highway closed to commercial vehicles but open to other vehicles and bikers. There is no separate bike trail, but the traffic speed limit is 45. My wife, Barbara, and I drove some of it in 2020.

Cutting through Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, it’s historic and scenic, and it’s a part of the National Park Service.

GENE McPHERSON
Sturgis, SD

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