There are no blind curves, so no one is going to come up on you really fast. Myer said he and several friends from Indiana regularly cycle from Nashville to Florence and back again. Many ride bicycles built for two. We're never in a hurry to make time. We just go slow and relax.
Some bicycle riders can complete the parkway in as few as four days.
Others take as long as two weeks. For some, even a slow-moving bicycle proves too fast on the Trace. Marian Wack, history specialist for the parkway, said several people hike the 450 miles of the Trace each year. Wack said visitors who choose to hike the parkway get a taste of what travel was like on the original Natchez Trace. After ferrying flatboats loaded with farm products, furs and other goods from Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, boatmen would walk home on the old Trace, Wack said.