Here is the final installment in the Mississippi Bucket List series. Our next Bucket List state will feature Tennessee.

Como

• Home Place Pastures: This is your chance to visit a working hog farm.

Corinth

• Borroum’s Drugstore and Soda Fountain: This is the state’s oldest operating drug store and soda fountain.

Grenada

• Chakchiuma Swamp: Great place for hiking and viewing wetland wildlife.

Holly Spring

• Phillips Grocery: This place is said to have one of the “world’s best burgers.”

Horn Lake

• Circle G Ranch: This was where Elvis took his honeymoon.

Iuka/Tishomingo

• Tishomingo State Park: This park has a swinging bridge popular among tourist.
• Mineral Springs Park: A place to check out famous drinking water which one a prize at the 1902 World’s Fair.
• Woodall Mountain: This is the highest point in Mississippi and would make a fun climb.

Nesbit

• Nesbit Blueberry Plantation: I love blueberries, so would love to visit this place. However, that can only be done in the summer.

Tupelo

• Elvis Presley Birthplace and Museum: A great place to see where Elvis grew up.
• Tupelo Hardware Company: This is where Elvis’ mom bought his first guitar.
• Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center: This is one that will give me another stamp in my National Park Passport Book.

All ideas taken from the Mississippi 2018 Travel Guide.

 

Phew! Things have been a bit of a whirlwind after learning that we will be moving to South Dakota this summer following Andrew’s Call Day placement ceremony at the end of April. We’ve finally made all our moving plans and now are spending a month on the road visiting family before heading back to St. Louis to back up our belongings and move north in the middle of July. I will do my best to stay more active on this blog even through all those transitions, but no promises!

Here’s the 4th of 5 installments in the Mississippi Bucket List Regions.

Belzoni

• Catfish Museum: This is apparently the Catfish Capitol of the World which makes it worth the stop as is. It also claims to be home to the World’s Largest Catfish, which is interesting since we thought we had recently visited that in Whapeton, ND.

Clarksdale

• Delta Blues Museum: Great place to get some history on Blues in this area.

Cleveland

• Grammy Museum Mississippi: This is the first Grammy museum to be built outside of the Los Angeles area.

Greenville

• Greenville Cypress Preserve Trust: This sounds like a fun place to visit to see the natural beauty of the area.

Greenwood

• Self Guided Driving Tour of “The Help”: I loved both the book and movie so I think this would be really fun!

Indianola

• B.B. King Museum: Museum dedicated to the King of the Blues.

Leland

• Birthplace of Kermit the Frog Museum: Doesn’t need much explanation. I love the Muppets!

Rolling Fork

• Onward Store: This store was where Teddy Bears made their debut.

Tunica

• Tunica Riverpark and Museum: Provides a nice walk along the river and gives a brief history of the area.
• Gateway to the Blues Museum: Gives a nice overview of the Blues genre.

All ideas were pulled from both the 2017 and 2018 Mississippi Travel Guides.

The third region of Mississippi that we will explore via Bucket List is the Pines Region.

Amory

• Friends of Armory Museum Model Railroad Exhibit: I’ve always enjoyed seeing displays of model railroads so this should be neat to check out.
• Bill’s Hamburgers: I don’t usually post restaurants in my Bucket List series, but this one has been around for 75 years and featured on Travel Channel.

Enterprise

• Dunn’s Falls: I love a good hike to a waterfall!

Kosciusko

• Kosciusko Museum and Visitor Center: This is Oprah’s hometown, so it seems worth a stop.

Meridian

• “Around Town Carousels Abound”: Meridian is home to a large carousel, but I’d much rather see the artwork inspired by said carousel.

Starksville

• Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library: I find any presidential library fascinating!

All attractions were found in the 2018 Mississippi Travel Guide

Here is a region of Mississippi that we actual visited about a year and a half ago, but I’m realizing as I write this list that there was so much in the area we still missed out on! I guess that’s what we get for making this area a pit stop on the way to New Orleans!

Canton

• Canton Movie Museums: I’m not sure how much in this museum would interest me, but apparently several movies have been made in Canton and the museum includes props from those movies.

Natchez

• Natchez National Historical Park: We’ve visited here on our trip, but only toured the outside of the houses due to timing and hours that they were open. I’d love to go back and take the actual tours.
• Bluff’s Park: We briefly walked along the Bluff on a trail near the visitor center when getting our National Park Passport stamped, but I’m sure this park be a beautiful way to take in the river views.

Jackson

• Mississippi Museum of History: I love visiting state museums to learn the history. This was being remodeled when we took our trip so we missed out on visiting.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum: This is located next to the Museum of History so you might as well visit both at once. I think this museum would be especially interesting given it’s location in Jackson which was a pivotal place of the Civil Rights movement.
• International Museum of Muslim Cultures: Growing up in the Lutheran Church, I think this would be a fascinating museum to visit and probably eye opening as well.
• Civil Rights Driving Tour: This would be a fun way to visit lots of key sites from the Civil Rights Movement.
• Old State Capitol Museum: While in Jackson we toured the current state capitol building, but I don’t believe the old one was open while we were in town.
• Mississippi State Capitol: This should be on anyone’s list who is visiting Jackson. You can read about our visit here.
• Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum: I think this would be a great way to learn about some of Mississippi’s great industries.

Vicksburg

• Vicksburg National Military Park: We stopped by Vicksburg for several hours on our way down to New Orleans. It was well worth the visit and you’ll definitely want to give yourself the day to see it all if you go.
• Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum: I’m sure it’s probably small, but I’m sad we missed this place! This is where Coca-Cola was first bottled!

All attractions have been found in the 2018 Mississippi Travel Guide

Today we make our way to Mississippi for the Bucket List series! This will be the first in five posts for this series. Since we just came from Florida in the Bucket List series, lets start with Mississippi’s Coastal Region!

Biloxi

• “Beauvoir”- Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library: Home to the first and only president of the Confederacy, I find it fascinating that he has his own presidential library.
• Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum- I always love visiting maritime museums, but this was has the added intrigue of seafood industry.

Gulfport

• Fort Massachusetts: This fort was built during the War of 1812

Hattiesburg

• deGrummond Children’s Literature Collection: I love children’s literature and this is one of North America’s leading research centers dealing with it.

Waveland

• Waveland Ground Zero Hurricane Museum: This museum shows what it’s like to live in a hurricane zone and the recovery efforts people put into rebuilding the towns they’ve grown to love

Of course there are many beaches to check out in the area as well!

All attractions found in either the 2017 or 2018 Mississippi Travel Guides.