The Natchez Trace Parkway is a beautiful drive through 52,000 acres/444 miles of forest – the modern remainder of trade and transport trails and roads used for thousands of years by Native Americans, traders and trappers, explorers, and early American pioneers. It runs through three states, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and has multiple hiking trails, scenic attractions, and campgrounds along the way.
We stopped to picnic at a nice shady spot, which was really nice, except for a few annoying insects looking for lunch as well.
Immediately off Natchez Trace Parkway is Pharr burial mounds,
Eight Native American burial mounds spanning 90 acres.