Trip: 8
(A good mix of history and scenery)
Visited from Mar 30, 2023 to Apr 16, 2023
(Group 17)
This trip had a good mixture of history and scenery. Four Civil War battlefields, including two major sites at Shiloh and Vicksburg, plus two civil rights sites - Central High School and Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home - filled the history side, along with Fort Smith in western Arkansas and Arkansas Post on the eastern side of the state.
The Natchez Trace Parkway and National Scenic Trail provided some of the scenery as did Gulf Islands National Seashore and Buffalo National River.
Hot Springs National Park provided a mixture of history and scenery!
Decent weather continued to follow me on my trips, with heavy rain arriving after departing the last park.
Read my blog entry about this trip.
Park units visited during this trip
Click on any of the parks listed below to see the page specific to that park.
The park page will have my comments about the site, photos and links to both the NPS official page and my blog entry for the park.
The interactive map in the top right of this page shows the location of each unit. You can zoom in and move around on the map. The rectangle icon in the top right will expand the map to full screen. Clicking on any unit in the map will open a small information window. The map and icons on it are based on the same information found in the Google Earth KML files, which you can create and download from the Home page.
- Mar 30, 2023: Gulf Islands National Seashore (Gulf Breeze, FL)
- Mar 31, 2023: Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument (Jackson, MS)
- Apr 1, 2023: Tupelo National Battlefield (Tupelo, MS)
- Apr 1, 2023: Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site (Baldwyn, MS)
- Apr 1, 2023: Natchez Trace Parkway (Tupelo, MS)
- Apr 1, 2023: Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail (Tupelo, MS)
- Apr 2, 2023: Shiloh National Military Park (Shiloh, TN)
- Apr 10, 2023: Buffalo National River (Harrison, AR)
- Apr 11, 2023: Fort Smith National Historic Site (Fort Smith, AR)
- Apr 12, 2023: Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site (Little Rock, AR)
- Apr 13, 2023: Hot Springs National Park (Hot Springs, AR)
- Apr 14, 2023: President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site (Hope, AR)
- Apr 14, 2023: Arkansas Post National Memorial (Gillett, AR)
- Apr 15, 2023: Vicksburg National Military Park (Vicksburg, MS)
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