It is not a National Park. It is a Parkway that is administered by the National Park Service. The NPS oversees over 600 areas of which there are currently 63 National Parks.Rene, the Natchez Trace is actually a road that is also a National Park.
Thanks to the suggestions we got here as to a good route coming back home last month we drove the Trace for a good portion of the trip. Well worth visiting.Think of the Natchez trace as a 400+ mile long half mile wide national park, just wide enough to hide the surrounding civilization along most of the route, with pull offs, historical markers, etc. every few miles, a low speed limit and no commercial trucks allowed. It follows the route of the old Natchez Trace road, which was a walking trail from Natchez to Nashville, people would raft down the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers with cargo to Natchez and walk back. The modern Trace parkway took a long time to construct it was started as a depression era CCC project and was finally finished in the last 10-15 years, for many years ( several decades) the 20-30 mile section around Jackson, Mississippi, as well as the last few miles at each end were left un-built.
Definitely! We got the free guide book at one of the Welcome Centers. We would have missed a lot without it.Buy the guide book first if you can.
Matt
Semantics. The LEO I got when I called 911 had an NPS uniform on. He actually got there before the county sheriff.It is not a National Park. It is a Parkway that is administered by the National Park Service. The NPS oversees over 600 areas of which there are currently 63 National Parks.
It is not semantics, it is false advertising. The real National Parks are the crown jewels of the country. It may be a very nice road but definitely not a real National Park.Semantics. The LEO I got when I called 911 had an NPS uniform on. He actually got there before the county sheriff.
They would have to catch him first, he has the third highest land speed record in history!
Your loss, I suspect.He wouldn’t be on the road long here in NH. The LEO would have him pulled over in a flash.