You don't have the heat or fly problem you have in midsummer. Just right, just put on lots of clothes. The 65-site wrangler camp is open all winter and provides a bathhouse, electrical and water hookups and places to tie horses at every campsite, Evans said. After leaving camp and hitting the trail, riders can take in plenty of scenery. Some of the trails run close to the park's four lakes, and others go through wooded areas full of large stands of hardwoods and pines, Evans said.
Most trails are dirt, with some gravel on others.
The park also has an equestrian center expected to be open in the spring, offering stables and other amenities. Horses may be available for rent. Miss. The trail was first traveled by Native Americans and then used in the early 1800s by settlers taking crops and other goods to markets in Natchez. No part of the original road is visible in the park now, Evans said, but a western spur off the main trail used by settlers in western Kentucky and Illinois once ran through the area that is now the park. In 1815, Andrew Jackson's soldiers tramped the trail on their way home from the Battle of New Orleans, and it was then that, according to legend, the park's pecan tree got its start.