Karen’s Snapshots!

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My last day on the Natchez Trace Parkway.

• Mile 391.9 - Fall Hallow - A pretty little waterfall on a shady path.
• Mile 401.4 - Tobacco Farm - A tobacco barn and a small field of tobacco growing, to explore and see how tobacco is dried.
• Mile 401.5 - Old Trace Drive - Another 2 mile one-way stretch of road that follows the old Trace path that you can drive north on.
• Mile 404.7 - Jackson Falls (Trace Top 20) and Duck River Overlook - To the right was Jackson Falls and to the left was the Duck River Overlook trail. There were a dozen misbehaving young kids at the picnic tables, being punished by not getting to go to the falls and having to waiting for the rest of their school mates who were down there. I decided to go left and walk along the Duck River Overlook. When I returned, the rest of the children were arriving back from the falls and they said there was no water down there, so I decided to skip the steep walk down and up.
• Mile 405.1 - Bakers Bluff Overlook - Bakers Bluff is the other end of the Duck River Overlook trail and it looks out over a pretty green valley.
• Mile 407.7 - Gordon House and Ferry Site (Trace Top 20) - The second of only two surviving structures on the Trace. The Gordon House is a two-story brick building and looked quite charming from the outside. It was locked up, so I couldn’t go inside, but by holding the camera up to the window, I could see that the inside was pretty trashed anyway.
• Mile 423.9 - Tennessee Valley Divide - In 1796, this was the boundary between the USA and the Chickasaw Indian Nation to the south.
• Mile 426.3 - Old Trace - A rest spot where access to the old trail is accessible.  I also saw some type of worms in a cocoon type thing, very interesting.
• Mile 438 - Highway 96 Double-Arch Bridge (Trace Top 20) - A beautifully arched bridge, which has received 13 design awards, opened in 1994 and it deserves the awards.
• Mile 444 - Northern Terminus - End of the Natchez Trace Parkway

The Natchez Trace Parkway finishes in the southern portion of Nashville, but I’m not heading there quite yet. I turn right and head east to visit with friends. I make a stop at Edwin Warner Park to gain my bearings and then just drove straight though to Etowah.

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