After the friends described the scenery and terrain, Whann began planning a trip. Whann, her husband, Bob, and four friends from Arizona and Colorado traveled 1,600 miles by car to Natchez in early April and then toured the entire parkway by bicycle. Whann wrote the trip was an adventure. We stopped and read every brown sign, took every nature trail, climbed every mound, walked the Old or Sunken Trace at every opportunity, and we could always find a picnic table when we were ready to eat lunch. Whann said the group saw deer, wild turkey, great blue herons, turtles and a bobcat along the parkway.
Memories are the windows of our minds.
Tenn. Vanvickle's father, Rhett G. Danley, helped survey the route for the parkway. The parkway also has special meaning to Grady Kennedy of Florence who grew up near the route in Tennessee. My grandfather's farm bordered the south side of the Trace. I killed my first squirrel on the Trace when I was so small I could not pull the hammer back on the old 12-gauge shotgun with my thumb. His grandfather's old farm can be seen from an overlook on the parkway near Jackson Falls.