[at-l] Natchez Trace...

[Mara Factor]

I'm not sure that there is any overnight (or long-term) parking on the Trace 
other than the drive-in campgrounds.  I don't remember seeing any while 
driving the length in 2005.  Then again, I don't remember not seeing any.  
Call the NPS at 800-305-9718.  The northern end is just outside Nashville, 
so you might find some place or someone to host your car there.  There was a 
nice park on the way into Nashville when I got off the Trace.  It had a 
large lot but I'm not sure if overnight (or long-term) parking would be 
permitted there.  [From my journal, it was the Edwin Warner Park and the 
adjacent Percy Warner Park]

If you're planning on hiking the Trace, don't bother.  There's only 60+ 
miles of discontiguous hiking trails on the entire trace.  If however, 
you're planning on bicycling, it'll be a great ride.  I recommend riding 
north to south.  While a bit hillier in the north, it's mostly an easy and 
flat ride but southbound is the generally downhill direction.  I hope to go 
back to ride it myself sometime.

If you don't already have it, have the NPS service send you the strip map.  
Also print the bicycle campsite info from their web site.  The bike sites 
are not documented on the strip map.

Thanks for giving me an excuse to pull out the map and reread my journal.

Mara
Stitches, AT99

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>From: Felix J <athiker at smithville.net>
>To: AT-list <at-l at backcountry.net>
>Subject: [at-l] Natchez Trace...
>Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:16:50 -0500
>
>Does anybody know anything about parking (long-ish term) at the northern
>terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway??
>
>--
>Felix J. McGillicuddy
>ME-->GA '98
>"Your Move"
>ALT '03 KT '03
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