Nashville to new orleans

[belle22]

Looking for quick (less then two hour stops) stops.. Roadside attractions.. Unique restaurants from nashville to New Orleans

Thanks!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Stan's in Columbia, TN. Get the pulled pork sandwich

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Space Center - Huntsville, AL

 

[Southernmiss]

Milky Way farm Lynnville Tennessee. Farm begun by creater of Milky Ways beautiful!

If you see 'Beckys Fried Pies' buy them. Delicious! Available at local mom and pop stores, restaurants and gas stations. Miss Becky is a friend of mil.

Davy Crockett state park in Lawrenceburg Tennessee. Trails, picnic spots, swimming pool. A cabin with the story of Davy Crockett retold. Beautiful!

Drive along the Natchez Trace. Park take a walk down trails leading to waterfalls and many other interesting and unique stops. Can get maps from the ranger stations. Free!

Huntsville Space Center.

Muscle Shoals Alabama and Helen Kellers birthplace. Very interesting to see the little house she grew up in and hear the story in person.

Mobile Alabama Bellingrath Gardens beautiful! Many other kid friendly stops Expkoreum kid museum, Bay Bears baseball game, historical places, USS Alabama battleship.

Get off of I 10 and rode along highway 90 along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 26 miles of white sandy beaches. Water isn't as pretty-we have barrier islands trapping in silt. But a nice diversion. Walk the bridge in Ocean SpiSprings. Have a Tatonut donut at the Tatonut shop. walk downtown. Visit Miners Toy Store. A small, yet neat mom and pop ownedplace. Been there for years. Visit the walter Anderson museum of art. The Mary C Okeefe cultural center.

Coming into Biloxi. Stop at the Maritime and Seafood museaum. Opened last year. Tells the history of the area especially the maritime history. Sailboats and schooners on display inside.

Lots of great restaurants along Ms Gulf Coast. Get out in Biloxi at the Visitors center by the lighthouse.. If you arrive in the morning walk up the lighthouse. LOts of info in the visitors center and just a beautiful antebellum styled new building.
Stop at Beauvoir- the last hone of Jefferson Davis.

In Gulfport visit Lynn meadows childrens museum. Walk up in the tree houses in oak trees that are hundreds of years-old. Stop at Jones park for he splash pads.

Stop in Darwells in Long Beach for lunch or dinner. Very unique restaurant. Featured on Diners drive ins and dives.

Keep going along the coast into Pass Christian and Bay St. Louis. Small towns with their own little stops.

Heading back to I10 visit the Nasa Science and Space Museum. New opened in the last year or two. Haven't been there yet myself. But our version of the Huntsville attraction.

From here to New Orleans is less than an hour.

 

[belle22]

Any stops along I65 in AL or I59 AL and MS. Needing a MS stop so we can say we did something in MS. Needs to be a quick stop.

 

[Southernmiss]

Any stops along I65 in AL or I59 AL and MS. Needing a MS stop so we can say we did something in MS. Needs to be a quick stop.

I find I59 through Mississippi to be rather boring. It takes you from Meridian through Hattiesburg to almost Slidell Louisiana. I've been in/through Meridian numerous times. There's a Jimmy Rogers museum. I haven't been but it's not something of interest to me and my kids.

You could see the campus of USM in Hattiesburg where my ds attends. It's a small, but nice campus. Other than that, not a lot that I can think of on that route.

Taking I65 through Alabama to I10 where it ends near Mobile gives you easy access to a lot of the options in Mississippi that I mentioned in my earlier posts. I think your family would find more of interest there.