A one-of-a-kind collection of thousands of hand-sewn aprons — Civil War calicos to Star Wars novelties — tucked in tiny Iuka in the far northeast corner, open by appointment.
Road trips · Mississippi
Mississippi road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Mississippi — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A 65-foot waterfall an Irish immigrant built by hand in the 1850s, paired with a relocated 1857 grist mill in the piney woods near Enterprise, southeast of Meridian.
Twenty-three lonely Corinthian columns are all that's left of Mississippi's grandest antebellum mansion, which burned after a careless cigar in 1890, rising from the woods near Port Gibson.
A roadside diner serving homemade sandwiches and stacked meringue pies from inside a giant 1940s brick figure on Highway 61 south of Natchez — lunch only, Tuesday through Saturday.
The only petrified forest in the eastern U.S., where a 36-million-year-old logjam turned to stone along a short nature trail in Flora, just north of Jackson.
Tucked in the far northeast corner, the state's only true rock canyon, with sandstone bluffs, fern-choked crevices, and a swaying 1939 suspension bridge over Bear Creek — Mississippi's Appalachian foothills.
Plan the Mississippi trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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