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Drive from Sugarlands Visitor Center to Oconaluftee Visitor Center, and see the highest peak east of the Mississippi, Clingmans Dome, and two working mills.
Tennessee’s Newfound Gap Road is a 40-mile trip from Sugarlands Visitor Center to Oconaluftee Visitor Center located in North Carolina. The2-hour trek through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was built in the 1930s. Read more . . .
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 . . .
Take a short road trip to see rocket engines, demonstrations of commercial shrimping, oystering, fishing, pre-Civil War hotel, Sandhill Crane Refuge, and Scranton Floating Museum.
This is a short drive, but there are so many good occasions to stop and see or do things that it will take at least a day to achieve most of them. If you stop for all the interesting places along this drive, you will need one week, but it’s worth doing as they are all good. Begin at the NASA Test Site next to the first I-10 exit out of Louisiana. At the NASA Center, you might see, or at least hear, rocket engines being experimented and see some excellent exhibits. Next, drive south on Route 607 for about 20 miles to Bay Saint Louis.
By this time, Route 607 has become U.S. 90. Follow U.S. 90 for 55 miles through Biloxi, Gulfport, and Ocean Springs to Pascagoula. At both Biloxi (1115 Porter Avenue) and Gulfport (702 E. Beach Blvd.), there are Read more . . .