Natchez Trace Parkway - Meriwether Lewis

National Park Tennessee

Visited April 2007

Entrance sign for Natchez Trace Parkway - Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis CG is located at Milepost 386 on the Natchez Trace Parkway, about 70 miles south of Nashville. It's a free campground with 31 sites, no hookups.

Since this is the third of the free campgrounds along the Trace, we planned our day for an early arrival. At 2 PM, there were about 8 sites to choose from - we took #20.

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Natchez Trace Parkway - Meriwether Lewis

Since this is the third of the free campgrounds along the Trace, we planned our day for an early arrival. At 2 PM, there were about 8 sites to choose from - we took #20.

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Around the campground

Here's view of site 2 taken from site 1. I'd say the sites are about evenly divided between pull-throughs and back-ins.

Site 5 on the left, 6 and 7 on the right.

At the end of the second loop are sites 31 (left), 30 (right) and 29 (background). In fact, this was our third time in a week we had encountered the gal in the rig in back - a doctor from Bangor, ME.

Site 23 at right, with the little bathhouse at left. No showers.

Within the park grounds is the burial site of explorer Meriwether Lewis. He died at the nearby Grinder's Inn of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.

The stones in the ground mark the site of Grinder's Inn.

There are several miles of hiking trails in the park, including a portion of the original Trace.

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