Featured National Recreation Trails

Kitty Dill Memorial Parkway — Located in the City of West Point, this urban rail-trail and bikeway forms nearly a 4-mile loop, providing residents with easy, safe access from local neighborhoods to businesses, schools, churches, and other amenities. Adults and children alike enjoy walking, jogging, biking, or skating along the trail. With its trees, gazebos, benches, and picnic tables, the parkway is valued as an accessible, community resource. The seasonal beauty of this natural asset and the benefits it provides to area residents, combine to make the parkway a great source of pride for the city (designated 2005).

Magnolia Trail — Located just south of Natchez in St. Catherine Creek National Wildlife Refuge, this 3-mile nature trail allows visitors to access various wildlife habitats and topographic features, including loess bluffs which offer views of the Mississippi and Homochitto Rivers. The refuge hosts a variety of wildlife, including migratory songbirds, waterfowl, and alligators. The trail serves a broad population in the southeastern Louisiana-southwestern Mississippi area, including many school groups who utilize the interpretive signs for environmental education (designated 2005).

	Melissa, left, and Hannah in their Trace Travelers vests

Longleaf Trace Trail — Extending from Hattiesburg to Prentiss, this 41-mile rail-trail offers a variety of natural features, opportunities for biking, hiking, and horseback riding, and provides economic benefits for local communities (designated 2004).

The two young girls at right formed the Trace Travelers bike club to participate in biking events, and ride the rail trail and in national parks just for fun. They have matching vests that are monogrammed and they purchase patches from every trail and park they ride, which are placed on the back of their vests.