Mississippi
travel guide for Mississippi
Hope you find value in our Mississippi Travel Guide! We enjoyed our visit to Biloxi and trying some of the restaurants along the beautiful Gulf of Mexico coastline.
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Major Attractions
The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies
To learn more about the ocean’s creatures, you can visit the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies. It is a considerable research and rehabilitation center with one of the only dolphin rescue facilities on the gulf coast. In the Discovery Room, visitors can interact with marine life, including sharks, stingrays, and sea stars. In addition, there is a fossil digging activity for children where they can unearth a shark tooth and take it home with them.
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
The Museum of Natural Science offers an opportunity to learn about the natural world through various experiences and exhibits. It has a 100,000-gallon aquarium inside the museum, and you will find over 200 native species. There is also a huge greenhouse with a swamp habitat and an extensive fossil collection.
Elvis Presley Birthplace
The King of Rock and Roll ‘Elvis Presley’ was born in Mississippi. He was born into a two-room house in Tupelo. The home has been preserved the way it was during Presley’s childhood. Fans from all over the country come to pay their respects to the iconic singer who revolutionized the music world.
Stanton Hall
Stanton Hall is an Antebellum Classical Revival mansion built in the 1850s. The house was created by a wealthy Irish immigrant who was a planter and a cotton merchant. The mansion is one of the most luxurious antebellum mansions in the southeastern United States. Disney’s Haunted Mansion is fashioned after this home. Today is is maintained by the Pilgrimage Garden Club.
Mississippi Petrified Forest
Mississippi Petrified Forest showcases the remains of a massive forest that has turned stone with time. It is believed that the forest was formed 36 million years ago when trees were uprooted by a massive flood and were buried by silt and volcanic ash. In the early 20th century, people began to report having been cursed after taking a piece of wood from the forest. To this day, many people still believe that the forest is cursed.
Some other notable places and top Mississippi attractions:
Tupelo Automobile Museum
USS Cairo Museum at Vicksburg National Military Park
Natchez Trace Parkway
Grammy Museum Mississippi
Old Capitol Museum
Best Time to Visit Mississippi
We have linked a great website to this button showing the weather for this location by the month. Click below to be taken to Weather-and-Climate.com.