Natchez Trace
Name: Natchez Trace (south to north)
Start: Daughters of the American Revolution monument(plaque) Natchez MS
Finish: Loveless Cafe, Nashville, TN
Distance: ~444 miles
Description: The Natchez Trace was originally blazed centuries ago by the Indigenous Americans. The Europeans discovered the Trace in the 17th century, and by the 1770's it was a busy highway. "Kaintucks," or residents of Kentucky, Tennessee, and other states, would build flat bottom boats to float their goods down the Mississippi River to be sold in markets in Natchez, Mississippi or New Orleans, Louisiana. Unable to paddle back up the mighty river's current, they would sell the boats for construction materials and walk the Trace northward, back home through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The invention of steam boats powerful enough to fight the currents ended the heyday of the Trace almost overnight, and by the 1830's it was all but deserted. In the 1930's, a route alongside the Old Trace was paved, which eventually became the Natchez Trace Parkway, which the National Park Service now administers. Today the Parkway is a 447 mile long ribbon of pavement that winds and twists through eight watersheds and four distinct ecosystems, featuring signs and markers that tell travelers about the history and heritage of the region, from pre-history to the founding of the parkway.
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Name: Natchez Trace (south to north)
Start: Daughters of the American Revolution monument(plaque) Natchez MS
Finish: Loveless Cafe, Nashville, TN
Distance: ~444 miles
Description: The Natchez Trace was originally blazed centuries ago by the Indigenous Americans. The Europeans discovered the Trace in the 17th century, and by the 1770's it was a busy highway. "Kaintucks," or residents of Kentucky, Tennessee, and other states, would build flat bottom boats to float their goods down the Mississippi River to be sold in markets in Natchez, Mississippi or New Orleans, Louisiana. Unable to paddle back up the mighty river's current, they would sell the boats for construction materials and walk the Trace northward, back home through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The invention of steam boats powerful enough to fight the currents ended the heyday of the Trace almost overnight, and by the 1830's it was all but deserted. In the 1930's, a route alongside the Old Trace was paved, which eventually became the Natchez Trace Parkway, which the National Park Service now administers. Today the Parkway is a 447 mile long ribbon of pavement that winds and twists through eight watersheds and four distinct ecosystems, featuring signs and markers that tell travelers about the history and heritage of the region, from pre-history to the founding of the parkway.
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- Philip Ankeny
- Start Time: 6:37AM 4/27/2026
- End Time: 1:06 PM 4/30/2026
- Total Time: 78 hours 29 mins.
- Total Distance 463.88 miles
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