Natchez Trace State Park is a 10,154-acre (4,109 ha) state park located in western Tennessee.
Natchez Trace State Park was named for the famous Natchez Trace, a Natchez, Mississippi-to-Nashville highway that was an important wilderness road during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A western spur of the trace ran through part of the modern-day park. With the many acres of scenic woodlands, the park includes four lakes, a swimming beach, a 47 room resort inn and restaurant complex, cabins, group lodge, camping areas, picnicking sites, playgrounds, a ballfield, a regulation pistol firing range, picturesque hiking trails, a wrangler camp, 250 miles (400 km) of horse riding trails, a park store, and archery range. Natchez Trace is located in Carroll, Henderson, and Benton counties, near the unincorporated community of Wildersville. Interstate 40 bisects the park, which is roughly equidistant from Memphis and Nashville. The park is the home to the third largest pecan tree in the world.
The park was built during the New Deal on land bought from residents who could no longer farm due to erosion.
Read more about Natchez Trace State Park: Water Activities, Horseback Riding, Playgrounds and Sports Fields
Famous quotes containing the words trace, state and/or park:
“Yet ere I can say where—the chariot hath
Passed over them—nor other trace I find
But as of foam after the ocean’s wrath”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public igominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)