Travel Information for Mississippi Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Mississippi attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Mississippi state park, this is where you will find it.
MISSISSIPPI has a unique blend of cities and countrysides, history and contemporary appeal and so has something for everyone. Mississippi's culture and heritage is found in the state's museums, historical homes, Civil War sites and landmarks, its casinos throughout the state from Tunica, the third largest gaming destination in the U.S., to Biloxi along the Gulf of Mexico. There are over 145 Mississippi golf courses from which to choose.
On a peninsula extending into the Gulf of Mexico, BILOXI is a year-round resort and a major fishing center; attractions include Beauvoir, the last home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Beloxi Shrimping Trip, the J.L. Scott Marine Education Center/Aquarium, and the Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum.
With Memphis only an hour away, CLARKSDALE works hard to retain its small town charm; its Delta Blues Museum traces the history and influence of this unique music genre.
Visitors to COLUMBUS can tour the Victorian birthplace of playwright Tennessee Williams.
Nearby, at the Mississippi State University at STARKVILLE, there is the Templeton Music Museum and Archive with its extensive collection of of antique photographs and sheet music.
Rich with Civil War history, battlefields, and architectural landmarks, CORINTH offers attractions such as Curlee House, a Civil War headquarters with period antiques and antebellum artifacts, and The Northeast Mississippi Museum housing Civil War artifacts and photographs.
One of the largest ancient Indian mound groups in the Mississippi Valley is at Winterville Mounds Museum State Park GREENVILLE. Memorabilia of blues music artists can be viewed at the Delta Gallery Blues Museum GREENWOOD, and the Cottonlandia Museum has exhibits that relate the story of the Mississippi Delta region; Florewood River Plantation is a recreation of an 1850's farm. With 148 miles of shoreline, Grenada Lake is the largest body of water in Mississippi; history buffs are drawn to GRENADA because of its Civil War history.
The beaches along the GULF COAST rank along the top 10 in the nation, and numerous resorts offer great vacation packages; there are some great historical sites on the coast and casinos have brought the excitement of Las Vegas to the beach; the Gulf Coast includes Bay St Louis (close to NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center), Biloxi, Gulfport, Ocean Springs and Pascagoula.
GULFPORT is the point of departure for cruises to Ship Island, part of Gulf Islands National Seashore and the location of historic Fort Massachusetts which precedes the Civil War; in Gulfport, there are performing dolphins and sea lions at the Marine Life Oceanarium.
HATTIESBURG is home to one of the largest, most intact historic districts in southeast Mississippi; the All-American Rose Garden on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi has 750 patented bushes, and nearby is the Museum of Art; 12 miles south of Hattiesburgh, the Armed Forces Museum has war memorabilia from the Civil War era to the Persian Gulf War.
The fine antebellum homes in HOLLY SPRINGS reflect the prosperity of the cotton era; Graceland Too is an Elvis archive.
JACKSON is State capital and Mississippi's cultural center. Attractions include the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry/National Agricultural Aviation Museum, a complex with 1920s farm and a recreation of turn-of-the-century Mississippi, the Governor’s Mansion, and another Greek Revival building, Jackson City Hall, which served as a hospital for both Confederate and Union soldiers. The Old Capitol Museum holds the nation’s first Civil Rights Movement exhibit, and the Mississippi Museum of Art has a huge collection of works by Mississippi artists.
At LAUREL visitors can wander the halls of Lauren Rogers Museum of Art and get a glimpse of the pioneer way of life at Landrum’s Country Homestead and Village.
LELAND is home to the “Birthplace of a Kermit the Frog” exhibit, a tribute to Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets and a native Mississippian.
Rosswood Plantation, LORMAN, once a cotton plantation, is now the centerpiece of a tree farm.
The local museum in MERIDEAN immortalizes country music pioneer Jimmy Rodgers – "Father of Country Music".
The NATCHEZ Under-the-Hill district, once infamous as the "Barbary Coast of the Mississippi", is now filled with restaurants, shops and casino; in the Natchez National Historical Park visitors can tour Melrose, built in 1845; many Natchez antebellum (pre-Civil War) historic houses are open for touring year-round, among the mansions are Longwood and Monmouth Plantation; on the outskirts of Natchez, the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians offers a glimpse of an extinct culture.
At OCEAN SPRINGS the Gulf Island National Seashore Visitors Center for the barrier islands offers exhibits, nature trails, and ranger programs; the Walter Anderson Museum of Art adjoins the community center where Anderson painted his murals depicting the flora and fauna of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
OXFORD in North Mississippi provided the inspiration for the works of native novelist William Faulkner; his Oxford home, Rowan Oak, may be toured; at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) campus visitors browse through the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
PHILADELPHIA is the birthplace of the Choctaw Indian Nation; the state’s only land-based casino is on the Choctaw Tribal Reservation.
TUNICA/ROBINSONVILLE is famous for its Casino Strip; this is America's third largest gaming destination; the Bluesville/Blues and Legends Hall of Fame is a nightclub featuring blues, country and rock and a huge blues museum.
Fans of rock ‘n’ roll music know North Mississippi best for TUPELO, the birthplace of Elvis Presley; visitors can walk through his humble, two-room childhood home as well as the adjacent museum and memorial chapel; the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitors Center is one of America's historical roadways; Tupelo National Battlefield was the site of a Civil War battle which neither side won.
The river-bluff city of VICKSBURG is the location of one of the Civil War’s most famous sieges: Today the rolling battlefields at the Vicksburg National Military Park are decorated with strategic markers and monuments to honor the armies of the North and the South; the Vicksburg Campaign Trail is a nationally significant site; antebellum homes include Annabelle, Balfour House, The Corners, Cedar Grove Mansion and Stained Glass Manor-Oak Hall; museums include the Gray and Blue Naval Museum, the world’s largest collection of Civil War gunboat models and dioramas of the siege, the Old Court House with its collection of Civil War artifacts; and the USS Cairo, a restored Union ironclad gunboat sunk during the Civil War and raised after 100 years.
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