Planning a four day excursion up and down the Natchez Trace with my wife next week. I've booked three B & Bs for Fri, Sat and Sun. Very excited about the trip.

Anyone who has made the trip, please share your favorite, but perhaps, not as well known, points of interest, places to eat, things to do, see etc.

Thanks.

 

Good place for a reasonable priced (good) lunch and home made chocolates and sweets - Collinwood Tn - Hazelbea's Sweets and Treats. Mile post 350 - 360 rough location.

 

Stop often. There are lots of pull-offs, and you should take advantage of them. It's not an exciting ride at all, as I think the maximum speed limit is 50. But it is beautiful. If you have a hankering to see what real poverty looks like, you can find it in Mississippi. I stopped for gas in a tiny little town that pretty much defined "dirt poor".

 

Hopefully you'll have a bunch more fun than our group did.

Not much to see but good to check off the bucket list. We ended up in N.O. That part was cool.

 

That had to have been Port Gibson.

 

Just looked at Google Maps Street View. Yup, that's the place. This was 5 years ago when the tornados tore up that area and you had to jump off the Trace every once in a while.

 

It pretty much describes any town in MS not named Jackson, Oxford, Hattisburg or Bilouxi.

 

I've not ridden the Natchez Trace, but have heard more than one claim it's not all that exciting a ride.

 

Or Tunica.

We stopped at some gas station across the Ross Barnett Reservoir and watched a guy make a hand made pizza (for a customer) on a counter that was being held up on one side by the public toilet. Not exaggerating.

I'm sure the pizza was fine. Just don't order it with pooperoni.

 

Just enjoy the ride. Can be done in a day if wanted.