On the Trace

We reached the Natchez Trace Parkway about 4 pm on Sunday. Our destination was the Rocky Springs Campground at mile 58. The Trace is a very pleasant drive from Natchez to Nashville a distance of 444 miles. There is no commercial traffic allowed on the parkway and there are no traffic lights or stop signs.

Rocky Springs was jammed packed; not a site left for us. This is the season the “Snowbirds”  begin to head north, back to Canada and I think we are in the middle of the pack. We decided to stop for supper in the information parking lot and if no one complained then just stay put for the night. That’s what we did and had a very peaceful sleep. In the morning we walked the campground, but still no vacancies. You are allowed to camp here for 14 days. Did I mention that all 3 campgrounds along the Trace are free?

Jim, from Cambridge, stopped by to chat and after he left we decided to have breakfast then drive further north in hopes of getting a site at the Jeff Busby campground. Then Jim showed up again, and said he had parked his car in site 14 when the people left. This meant we had a site for the day and decided to take it. Unknown to us at the time (we can’t get internet along the Trace) there was a severe weather watch for north of Jackson, the area we would have travelled through if we had left.

We have to be in Cincinnati by Thursday so we are back on the road, moving north and enjoying the signs of spring as we drive. Enjoy the pictures and I will write again whenever we get internet service.

Camping in the visitor parking. Campground was full.

Site 14. We were able to move to this site in the morning. Jim saved it for us by parking his car here. Stayed an extra day because of severe weather watch north of Jackson. Saw trees down the next day along the Trace.

Breakfast.

All free campgrounds along the Trace were full so we pulled into Davis National Forest site, 20 miles south of Tupelo, Mississippi. We were right on the water; could have stayed a week but Cincinnati calls.

Keep in touch and safe travels.