Mississippi Day Trips and Cool Places - Official Thread (1 Viewer)

[HoneyBear]

Magical day. Lots of history, very few people and wide open Mississippi space. Get out and enjoy this stuff. As long as you have a/c in your truck and a little water for the side trips you are golden

That's a trip I've been wanting to do for a while. I may use that route when I go.

 

[wngrog]

High res Windsor video. Breathtaking place.

 

[wngrog]

I've been wanting to backtrack some of the stuff I have already found and tweak out as much asphalt as I can as I do it, while recording it on a sharable file on my GPS program LeadNav GPS.

I was in Oxford then Vardaman today and I took off out of Vardaman about 1:15 and bypassed the part of the trail that I already did with Berkley last week.

I skipped around and left the road at Stewart Mississippi south of Highway 82 headed to my house.

Lots of very narrow, deep ditched county roads in here. Beautiful and desolate. I did not pass but one car in 100 miles of gravel. I passed a few on the asphalt but only one on the gravel.

Logging is heavy here. I am sure it gets busy on these roads when they are actively cutting and during hunting season but today it was silent.

I saw some interesting buildings that I need to come back and photograph properly. I did not have my camera just my dopey iPhone....

I ran across this beauty along one of the new sections I found cutting out asphalt. The body is 1969 but the top is early. I met the wife. Former Army aviators both....she got out, he retired. They are restarting a logging business that his father and grandfather had. Outside Kosciusko.

I left them my contact info. Hopefully I can diect them to Mud and Cottonland for some help with it. Nice folks. :usa:

 

[wngrog]

The track took me on 95% gravel until it petered out in Madison County on Old Highway 51. I took some good backroads that were paved the last 15 or so miles to Tilda Bogue.

The track runs "just east of West"....I love to say that.

This is a beautiful church along the route. I got a pic of it last time.

Final track. Stewart on Highway 82 to my house. If you find yourself wanting to take the slow road to Starkville or something, consider this route.

I also have Stewart to just west of Tupelo complete and sharable. Once I get that one done I will have Bovina to Tennessee complete and sharable.

 

[HoneyBear]

I downloaded the MDOT county maps to my surface and am marking out the routes I'm traveling, taking notes etc on them. I've got them out on onedrive in PDF format. Heading to Winona on Saturday, found the directions that Shush typed out and am using those for part of the trip. Got another vehicle and a passenger this time so pictures/notes/navigation should be even better. Full report to follow Saturday evening or Sunday.

 

[wngrog]

I'll email you this route. Takes you out about 10 miles east of Winona. Shoot me email.

 

[HoneyBear]

Winona trip was successful. I planned a little too much of the trip on fun roads, so we ended up having to use 55 and 51 to make up some time. Burger was great.

Trax

Trax

• HoneyBear
• Jun 25, 2016

Flags were the planned route, in the interest of time we made some modifications.

Stats

Trip Stats Winona

• HoneyBear
• Jun 25, 2016

Didn't get quite as dirty this time

Didn't get as dirty this time

• HoneyBear
• Jun 25, 2016

Visited wngrog's bridge

wngrog's bridge

• HoneyBear
• Jun 25, 2016

I think I found a better one...

Cooler bridge

• HoneyBear
• Jun 25, 2016

Big wash out.. or something

cool wash out

• HoneyBear
• Jun 25, 2016

Had a chase vehicle for the first half of the journey

Had a chase vehicle this time..

• HoneyBear
• Jun 25, 2016

 

[wngrog]

Superb

 

[wngrog]

I hit the central part of the MS Mound trail yesterday.

Pocahontas to Greenville where Winterville is. 115 miles, 3 mound stops on the way.

This is one of my favorites. Great mound. Great hike. Great rest area. Eat at Cock of the Walk or JCs. Start or end here.

Just north of Belzoni. Good DeltaBlues museum here.

Buzz over to Old Hwy 61 and hit the next one and enjoy your drive along old 61 and Deer Creek. It's awesome.

Continue up Old 61 through Leland to Winterville. I skipped since I was running late but it's superb and 5 miles north of Greenville

 

[wngrog]

After lunch I worked my way south and took down a pile and routed the best way to hit them all. Greenville to Vicksburg.

Backroad fun

 

[wngrog]

Another 115 miles this time but I stopped the track at Redwood. I'd have looped it out to catch the Lake George mounds in Holly Bluff but I ran out of time.

This one has a huge mansion next to it

This one has a mansion built ON it

.

 

[wngrog]

Most of these are along Deer Creek

These had a civil war battle on top of them

This one was in a small neighborhood of white people in Cary, MS. Weird

My last stop was Aden east of Valley Park.

Great history and great Delta tour.

South loop starts at Vicksburg. That's next.

 

[wngrog]

I got a really cool inside tour of Glenwild Plantation last week.

South of Grenada this place was 6000 acres and owned by a Chicago millionaire.

Superb history and architecture in the remaining structures.

The managers house. Then and now.

Old pics

My pics. Enjoy.

Glenwild - See and Eat Mississippi

 

[under_psi]

@wngrog that's awesome......cool place....agreed that it would make a cool venue.....like providence....etc.

 

[wngrog]

Really would. It's falling down. Sad

 

[euclid]

We explored this WMA yesterday. Lots of cool roads. I've never seen road cuts deeper than the ones in this area. Amazing hardwood forest.

That fireplace is about 1 mile from the MS river. Cool old homeplace.
Tunica Hills WMA | Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

 

[wngrog]

Sidebar on the way home from Destin

Red Bluff aka the Grand Canyon of Mississippi

 

[BMThiker]

Georgia has one of those too. Basically an ecological disaster turned into a State Park. It's eroding too fast to do anything about and they've talked about closing it down. Not even kudzu could fix it.
Providence Canyon Outdoor Recreation Area | Georgia State Parks

 

[dnp]

Sidebar on the way home from Destin

Red Bluff aka the Grand Canyon of Mississippi

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Nolen, is that Hwy 587 that's caving in in your photo (between Columbia and Monticello - runs right by the "canyon")? I hope not, as that's also known as the "Tail of the Little Red Dragon" and is (maybe was) the best paved enthusiast's road I know of in MS....

 

[wngrog]

Nolen, is that Hwy 587 that's caving in in your photo (between Columbia and Monticello - runs right by the "canyon")? I hope not, as that's also known as the "Tail of the Little Red Dragon" and is (maybe was) the best paved enthusiast's road I know of in MS....

That's it. They fixed it.

I didn't notice it being super awesome curvy. I'm always looking for Julius.

What's in Monticello. I drove right through. Seems like there is something there interesting.