Natchez Trace State Park was named for the famous Natchez Trace, a Natchez to Nashville highway that was an important wilderness road during the early 18th and early 19th centuries. With the many acres of scenic woodlands, the park includes four lakes, a swimming beach, a 47 room resort inn and restaurant complex, cabins, group lodge, camping areas, picnicking sites, playgrounds, a ballfield, a regulation pistol firing range, picturesque hiking trails, a wrangler camp, 250 miles (400 km) of horse riding trails, a park store, and archery range.
Natchez Trace is located in Carroll, Henderson, and Benton counties in West Tennessee.
In 1939 the U.S. Department of Agriculture leased land to the state for the development of NatchezTraceStatePark, and the CCC and WPA began park construction.
Park officials also attempted to raise visitation by associating the area with nearby Indian burial grounds and featuring within the park a large pecan tree that measured 17 feet in circumference and approximately 106 feet in height in 1960.
The park's unique depression-era project is Fairfield Gullies, a well-preserved area that demonstrates the former severely eroded lands of West Tennessee and the introduction of kudzu as a conservation method.
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