Enjoy Gordon House, Jackson Falls, tobacco farms, 2000 year-old burial mounds, Pearl River, Cypress Swamp, the Trace, a large Indian burial ground, and various crafts.

The Natchez Trace Parkway is a 429-mile drive from Franklin, Tennessee all the way to  Natchez, Mississippi. The trip takes 2  to 2-1/2 days. After paying a visit to the Carnton Plantation in Franklin, drive west out of town to Route 96. The Trace progresses through open fields and woods on the way to the Gordon House, one of the few remaining structures on the old Trace. Just after Gordon House lies Jackson Falls and a tobacco farm featuring exhibits on how to grow tobacco.  A 2-mile drive along the original Old Trace starts here.

The Sweetwater Branch nature trail is situated on the other side of the open farmland. Another twenty miles of woods tales you to the Alabama border. Go across the Tennessee River at Colbert Ferry and follow the quarter-mile Freedom Hills Overlook trail. Read more . . .