# Road trips in Mississippi > 7 road trips and 10 hand-picked places in Mississippi, with routes, stops and practical tips for driving and camping. Source: https://camping-spirit.com/roadtrips/mississippi/ 7 road trips and 10 hand-picked places in Mississippi, with routes, stops and practical tips for driving and camping. ## Road trips through Mississippi - [Vicksburg to Natchez: battlefields, ruins and mounds](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b19-vicksburg-natchez/): Siege lines at Vicksburg, the columns of Windsor Ruins and a giant ceremonial mound on the way down the Mississippi bluffs to Natchez. - [The Mississippi Gulf Coast on US-90](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-mississippi-gulf-coast/): From New Orleans to the art towns and long beaches of the Mississippi coast, with a lighthouse, an antebellum beach house and a bayou campground. - [The Blues Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/blues-highway/): Highway 61 from Memphis through the Mississippi Delta, where the blues began, to Vicksburg. - [Faulkner, Elvis and Shiloh: north Mississippi hill country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b19-north-mississippi-shiloh/): From Memphis to Faulkner’s Oxford, Elvis’s birthplace in Tupelo, the rock gorges of Tishomingo and the Civil War battlefield of Shiloh. - [Natchez Trace Parkway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/natchez-trace/): A 444-mile parkway with no trucks and no billboards, from Nashville to the Mississippi at Natchez. - [Music highway: Nashville to New Orleans](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/music-highway/): Country, soul, blues and jazz, with Memphis in the middle. - [Louisiana’s River Road: plantations, Baton Rouge and St. Francisville](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b19-louisiana-river-road/): Creole plantations along the Mississippi, the tallest state capitol in the United States and the gardens and bluffs of St. Francisville. ## Places worth the detour in Mississippi - [Biloxi Lighthouse](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b9-biloxi-lighthouse/): A cast-iron lighthouse from 1848 standing in the median of US-90, a symbol of the coast’s survival through many hurricanes. Park at the visitor center across the road. - [Vicksburg National Military Park](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b19-vicksburg-nmp/): A 26 km tour road through the siege lines of 1863, lined with over 1,300 monuments, plus the raised Union ironclad USS Cairo. Allow half a day; the road is one-way and fine for RVs. - [Elvis Presley Birthplace](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b19-elvis-birthplace/): The two-room shotgun house built by Elvis’s father in 1934, along with his childhood church, a museum and a statue of Elvis at 13. Allow about two hours. - [Beauvoir](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b9-beauvoir/): The raised beach house where Jefferson Davis spent his last years, now a museum and presidential library across US-90 from the sand. - [Walter Anderson Museum of Art](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b9-walter-anderson-museum/): Vivid watercolors and murals of Gulf Coast nature by an artist who rowed out to the barrier islands to paint. In the heart of walkable Ocean Springs. - [Gulf Islands National Seashore, Davis Bayou](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b9-davis-bayou/): The mainland section of the national seashore, with a live-oak campground, marsh boardwalks and a visitor center. Look for alligators in the bayou. - [Windsor Ruins](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b19-windsor-ruins/): Twenty-three tall Corinthian columns are all that remain of a mansion that burned in 1890. The site is free and open dawn to dusk, off MS-552 south-west of Port Gibson; the road can flood. - [Emerald Mound](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b19-emerald-mound/): The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States, built by ancestors of the Natchez people around 1300. Climb the stairs to the flat top; it is a short signed detour off the Natchez Trace Parkway. - [Rowan Oak](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b19-rowan-oak/): William Faulkner’s home for more than 30 years, with the plot outline of A Fable still written on his study wall. Owned by the University of Mississippi; the grounds are open, the house on tours. - [Tishomingo State Park](https://camping-spirit.com/places/b19-tishomingo-sp/): Rock outcrops and ferny canyons in the Appalachian foothills, with a swinging bridge over Bear Creek and CCC stone buildings. It lies right on the Natchez Trace Parkway at milepost 304. ## FAQs **What are the best road trips in Mississippi?** Popular routes include Vicksburg to Natchez: battlefields, ruins and mounds, The Mississippi Gulf Coast on US-90, The Blues Highway and Faulkner, Elvis and Shiloh: north Mississippi hill country. CampingSpirit has 7 trip guides that pass through Mississippi, each with a stop-by-stop itinerary and a route map. **Which places in Mississippi are worth a detour?** Our editors recommend Biloxi Lighthouse, Vicksburg National Military Park and Elvis Presley Birthplace.