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template: byway.jade
id: "2285"
name: Natchez Trace Parkway
distance: "444"
duration: Take two days to enjoy the byway.
description: "Native Americans, Kaintuck boatmen, post riders, government officials, and soldiers all moved across this trail, creating a vital link between the Mississippi Territory and the fledgling United States. Pass through forests, cypress swamps, and farmland to meander through the rock-studded hills of Tennessee, cotton fields in Alabama, and Mississippi's rural countryside."
contact: "**[Natchez Trace Parkway](http://www.nps.gov/natr/)**  \r\n 800-305-7417  \r\n [Send E-mail](mailto:NATR_interpretation@nps.gov )"
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.gorp.com/gorp/activity/byway/ms_natch.htm"
    name: "GORP - Natchez Trace Parkway"
  - url: "http://www.historicroads.org/"
    name: Historic Roads
  - url: "http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/mississippi/homochitto/"
    name: Homochitto National Forest
  - url: "http://www.recreation.gov/campgroundSearch.do"
    name: Mississippi Camping Sites
  - url: "http://www.nationalparks.org/discover-parks/index.cfm?fa=viewPark&pid=NATR"
    name: "National Park Foundation - Natchez Trace Parkway"
  - url: "http://www.nps.gov/natt/"
    name: "NPS - Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail"
  - url: "http://www.nps.gov/natr/"
    name: "NPS - Natchez Trace Parkway"
  - url: "http://www.alabamabyways.com/2012/05/26/talladega-scenic-drive/"
    name: "Talladega Scenic Drive - Alabama Byways"
  - url: "http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/mississippi/tombigbee/"
    name: Tombigbee National Forest
  - url: "http://www.nps.gov/trte/"
    name: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
  - url: "http://www.nps.gov/tupe/"
    name: Tupelo National Battlefield
designations: 
  - "All-American Road"
  - National Forest Scenic Byway
  - Parkway
states: 
  - AL
  - MS
  - TN
includes: 
  - "2051"
  - "2150"
  - "2250"
ll: 
  - -86.975783
  - 36.034577
bounds: 
  - - -91.361717
    - 31.549801000000002
  - - -86.97450299999997
    - 36.034577

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Native Americans, Kaintuck boatmen, post riders, government officials, and soldiers all moved across this trail, creating a vital link between the Mississippi Territory and the fledgling United States. Pass through forests, cypress swamps, and farmland to meander through the rock-studded hills of Tennessee, cotton fields in Alabama, and Mississippi's rural countryside.