The Natchez Trace Parkway is considered the largest national [ark east of the Mississippi River. It starts in Natchez, Mississippi, and crosses the whole state of Mississippi, the corner of Alabama, and ends in Nashville, Tennessee. This leisurely drive takes several days to traverse due to its low speed limit (45 mph to 50 mph). There is very little traffic along most stretches of the trace. Some of the most scenic landscapes in the Southeast are located on this route. Visit several Native American burial/ceremonial mounds along the way and learn more about how the earliest inhabitants of our country lived. Visit Mount Locust Plantation, the restored home of the Chamberlain family who lived there from the 1780s until the 1930s. It's worth stopping at most of the markers along the way.