A Road Trip Guide

Mississippi

The Gulf Coast and the Pine Belt, Natchez on its bluff and Vicksburg's battlefield, Jackson's civil rights landmarks, the Delta and the blues, Oxford and Tupelo, the Natchez Trace and the Golden Triangle, in the homeland of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez nations.

95 places · 8 regions

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Regions of Mississippi

Each region gathers the parks, towns, drives, and roadside stops that define one corner of the state.

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Hattiesburg & the Pine Belt

Choctaw land, timber rail and Freedom Summer: Hattiesburg's courthouse and Freedom School, Camp Shelby, Black Creek, the Longleaf Trace and Jones County.

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Jackson & Vicksburg

Choctaw country along the Natchez Trace, the civil rights landmarks of Jackson, then Vicksburg's siege, the raised USS Cairo, and the blues of Bentonia.

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Meridian & the Choctaw Hills

From the Choctaw Mother Mound and Dancing Rabbit Creek to Philadelphia, Meridian's museums and carousel, and the Noxubee refuge: east-central Mississippi's hills.

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Natchez & Southwest Mississippi

From the Grand Village and Emerald Mound to Forks of the Road, Melrose and Windsor Ruins: the Natchez homeland, cotton and slavery, and Black history on the bluffs.

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Oxford & the North Hills

Chickasaw and Choctaw country: Rowan Oak and the Lyceum, Ida B. Wells and Rust College in Holly Springs, Carrollton and Winona, and the Sardis and Enid lakes.

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The Mississippi Delta

Winterville Mounds, the blues towns, the Greenville levee and the Emmett Till and Fannie Lou Hamer sites: the flat Delta where cotton, music and the movement met.

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The Mississippi Gulf Coast

Native towns on the Pascagoula, a Civil War island fort, the Biloxi wade-ins, Walter Anderson's murals and NASA's test stands along 44 miles of Mississippi shore.

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Tupelo & the Golden Triangle

Chickasaw homeland, Civil War fields where Black soldiers fought, and the roots of Elvis, Howlin' Wolf and Tennessee Williams in Mississippi's northeast corner.

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