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National Parks in Mississippi.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

Mississippi has more than five NPS units, anchored by Vicksburg National Military Park, the Natchez Trace Parkway (444 miles, shared with Alabama and Tennessee), and Gulf Islands National Seashore (shared with Florida). Other units include Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site, Tupelo National Battlefield, Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, and Natchez National Historical Park. Jackson (JAN) is the main anchor airport; Memphis (MEM, Tennessee) reaches the northern parkway end; Gulfport (GPT) anchors the state's Gulf Islands unit. The parkway is open year-round but seasonal hours apply at headquarters and visitor centers. Mississippi's NPS network is heavily Civil War, parkway-driving, and Gulf Coast; winter and spring are the most comfortable visiting windows; summer Gulf humidity and tropical-storm risk are significant.

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NPS source records in Mississippi.

Mississippi has 10 records in our combined NPS metadata and visitor-statistics registry: 2 National Monuments · 2 National Military Parks · 1 National Battlefield Site · 1 National Seashore · 1 National Historical Park · 1 Parkway · 1 National Scenic Trail · 1 National Battlefield. This is a source-record count, not the Park Service's official system-unit census. Combined 5-year-average annual visits: 14,838,641 (multi-state units count their full visits in every state they touch, see methodology). The most-visited record is Natchez Trace Parkway at about 7.02M annual visits.

Every National Park Service site in Mississippi, mapped. Each glowing marker is one site, placed at its real coordinates and colored by type. Select a marker for its yearly visits and a link, or use the filters to show or hide a group. 9 of 10 units are mapped here; long-distance trails and units centered in another state are in the table below.
National Park Service sites in Mississippi, mapped Interactive map of Mississippi showing the location of 9 National Park Service sites, colored by type: national parks, monuments and memorials, historic sites, recreation areas and seashores, rivers, trails and parkways, and other sites. Each site is also listed with its yearly visits in the table below the map. 2

Marker positions are each unit's official NPS coordinates. State outline: U.S. Census cartographic boundary (public domain). Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

UnitDesignation5-yr avg visitsBusiest month
Natchez Trace Parkway ParkwayNATR 7,017,870 October
Gulf Islands National Seashore National SeashoreGUIS 6,959,985 July
Vicksburg National Military Park National Military ParkVICK 391,810 May
Shiloh National Military Park National Military ParkSHIL 372,782 May
Natchez National Historical Park National Historical ParkNATC 49,002 May
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument National MonumentMEMY 40,906 June
Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument National MonumentTILL 3,638 June
Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site National Battlefield SiteBRCR 2,027 August
Tupelo National Battlefield National BattlefieldTUPE 621 August
Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail National Scenic TrailNATT — —

Methodology

Rows come from our combined NPS metadata and Visitor Use Statistics registry, not the Park Service's official census of 433 managed system units. Per-record visit counts come from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; the "5-year average visits" column is the mean of 2021-2025 Recreation Visits. Multi-state records are listed under every state they touch, and their full visit total appears in each state. Official National Park counts use the central 63-park classification rather than the source designation label alone. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

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Independent site. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service. Data comes from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; editorial analysis is ours. The NPS Arrowhead and other NPS marks are not used.

Last updated · 2026-08-28