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Just looking for some advice suggestions on a upcoming road trip in November. I've posted similar before and always received some great tips.
The part of the route I'm looking for advice for is between Northern Florida and Memphis. I have 2 nights to plan so somewhere South Western GA and then a central area in AL. Want to drive on the back roads, scenic roads as much as possible to see the real Georgia/Alabama and Mississippi so any road side attractions, places where we will get a real flavour of the "Deep South".
Taking the 22 North of Birmingham is okay for part of it, but ideally as little as possible.
Just looking for some advice suggestions on a upcoming road trip in November. I've posted similar before and always received some great tips.
The part of the route I'm looking for advice for is between Northern Florida and Memphis. I have 2 nights to plan so somewhere South Western GA and then a central area in AL. Want to drive on the back roads, scenic roads as much as possible to see the real Georgia/Alabama and Mississippi so any road side attractions, places where we will get a real flavour of the "Deep South".
Taking the 22 North of Birmingham is okay for part of it, but ideally as little as possible.
Thanks in advance.
There's a very small private island outside of Montgomery called Jackson Lake Island where you can feed goats (it was built as a set to Big Fish). I would look into it as a unique pitstop.
Other unique places:
Alabama State Capitol (I've made it a bucket list to take a picture of each one)
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum (if you like motorcycles - look it up on Google Images)
Birmingham Museum of Art (very impressive for the city's size)
Drive Thru Museum/Museum of Wonder (just over the border from Columbus, Georgia)
Hank Williams' Death Car and Gravesite in Montgomery
Museum of Fond Memories in B'Ham
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark (for Birmingham's industrial history)
Statue of Liberty Mini-Replica in Vestavia Hills (suburban B'Ham)
Charming, authentic coastal towns:
Ocean Springs and Bay St. Louis (USA Today's best coastal towns in the U.S.) and historic Pass Christian
Civil war historic towns:
Natchez - Most antebellum homes in the U.S. (mansions) (USA Today's best historic small town in U.S.)
Vicksburg - Large military park for civil war battle, filled with large state monuments
Historic towns:
Oxford - USA Today's best college town in U.S.
Laurel - Site of HGTV show "Home Town" with tree-lined streets and early 20th century homes built during timber era
Other small towns with pretty historic residential districts:
Brookhaven
Corinth
Columbus
Holly Springs
Port Gibson
Delta Blues/music museums - Cleveland (Grammy Museum), Indianola (BB King Museum), Clarksdale (Delta Blues Museum), Leland (Hwy 61 Museum), Meridian (the Max museum), Tupelo (boyhood home of Elvis)
Civil rights museum - Jackson
Natchez Trace Parkway - Mostly woodlands, some places to stop (e.g. cypress forest near Jackson), 50/55mph federal speed limit
As far as backroads, I'm not too sure there's what you are imagining. There are some pretty 2-lane state highways in terms of farms, hills, forests etc but it really depends on where you are in the state.
Just looking for some advice suggestions on a upcoming road trip in November. I've posted similar before and always received some great tips.
The part of the route I'm looking for advice for is between Northern Florida and Memphis. I have 2 nights to plan so somewhere South Western GA and then a central area in AL. Want to drive on the back roads, scenic roads as much as possible to see the real Georgia/Alabama and Mississippi so any road side attractions, places where we will get a real flavour of the "Deep South".
Taking the 22 North of Birmingham is okay for part of it, but ideally as little as possible.
Thanks in advance.
In Georgia:
Radium Springs in Albany
Providence Canyon
Whitewater Rafting/Rapids in Downtown Columbus
Pine Mountain Ridge and Valley
Sprewell Bluff
Warm Springs and the Little White House
FDR State Park
Plains, GA - Home of Jimmy Carter
Andersonville National Monument
Thomasville - Historic Downtown
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