Backroads Across America: Alabama Paradise for $11

Apr 7, 2017

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Perfect spring conditions framed our drive today, which began with the first 100 miles of the Natchez Trace Parkway, a beautiful 444-mile two-lane path from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. We left the National Park Service-maintained trail at Jackson and caught Highway 80 east across Mississippi.

A fellow camper (traveling from Santa Barbara, California) in Louisiana had advised us to watch for the Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds. So, here we are at one, Prairie Creek, just past Selma, Alabama. What’s not to like! Quiet, lush, spacious sites. Lakeside vistas. Electricity and water hookups. Just $11 with a National Parks senior pass. If we were cats, it would be time to curl up and purr.

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8 responses to “Backroads Across America: Alabama Paradise for $11”

Kathy Chappell

April 7, 2017

Wow! That is a perfect campsite! We certainly hope to see the Parkway some day-looks beautiful.

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1. Reg and Sue
  
  April 8, 2017
  
  We are trying a Georgia state park the next two nights, it is near Warm Springs, FDR’s other home.
  
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ken gudger

April 7, 2017

We’re enjoying your daily updates. What a great trip. We remember the road from Memphis to Nashville (Soul Music to Country Music) is America’s Music Highway. Hope you have time to take in some of it. Stay safe….

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1. Reg and Sue
  
  April 8, 2017
  
  Thanks, Ken. We may not travel the music highway this trip…heading to FDR territory in Georgia today.
  
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Pam Thomas

April 7, 2017

What a lovely spot.

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Reg and Sue

April 8, 2017

Hope your trip has gone well.

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Jackie Bachman

April 8, 2017

Awwwww….the perfect camping spot!

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Jamey

April 8, 2017

Sounds ideal! And what a deal!

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