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Tupelo Outdoor Recreation Options Include Fishing, Camping and Golf
Tupelo is the ideal place for outdoor recreation, from simple outings to more significant connections with nature.
Fishing
The diversity and number of fishing spots in northeast Mississippi make Tupelo a fisherman's paradise. Some of the more popular spots include Enid Reservoir, Pickwick Lake, Lake Lamar Bruce, the Tombigbee waterway, Trace State Park and, of course, Elvis Presley Lake. The region is known for its crappie, smallmouth and largemouth bass, catfish and bream fishing.
Golf
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Natchez Trace Parkway Offers History, Nature in Abundance
Outdoor lovers must experience the scenic 444 mile Natchez Trace Parkway that stretches across Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Camping, hiking, biking and horse back riding are among the exciting recreations offered here.
Natchez Trace was made a unit of the National Park Service in 1938 and restoration was completed in 2005.
The parkway still contains parts of the “Old Trace” that Native Americans used to track bison.
Camping in Natchez Trace is very abundant. There are... Read More »
Tupelo Offers Top-Ranked Golf Courses
The Tupelo area is home to several good golf courses at a great value.
Tupelo Country Club ranks as one of the top quality tracts in all of Mississippi. The 18-hole layout in Belden just outside Tupelo was built in 1970 and measures a formidable 6,897 yards from the back tees.
The course has six small lakes and 300 native trees, and groundskeepers attend to more than 10,000 annual flowers that thrive in Tupelo's Southern climate.
“Tupelo County Club is amazing with some challenging holes... Read More »
Tupelo Lakes Earn Reputation for Reel Good Fishing
Every weekend, anglers in northeast Mississippi confront what some might say is a good problem to have.
When they grab their poles and head for the water, they have to choose one of more than 20 lakes within an hour-and-a-half drive of Tupelo. It’s tempting to head out to Enid Reservoir to try and best the white crappie world record that was set there in 1957, but then all those prize smallmouth bass swirling around in Pickwick Lake might get jealous. Is the day more suited for an afternoon... Read More »
Buffalo Park and Zoo Brings Old West to Deep South
Buffalo in Tupelo? That’s the question Dan Franklin’s family and friends might have asked him when the veteran cattleman returned home with six buffalo from Colorado and Canada.
But doubts were quickly put to rest as Franklin’s herd grew to nearly 100 and became the main attraction at the Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo, a 217-acre menagerie of giraffes, monkeys, buffalo and everything in between.
The park, which occupies a former Chickasaw Indian village, offers schoolchildren... Read More »
BancorpSouth Arena Hosts Everything from Rodeos to Ice Hockey
Oh, go ahead and bother with Winnie the Pooh.
BancorpSouth Arena will host a Disney Live! Winnie the Pooh concert Sept. 26, 2008, with tickets priced from $14 to $45.
The BancorpSouth facility also has five meeting rooms that can accommodate almost any event. One of the rooms can seat 1,900 people for banquets.
The arena also hosts everything from basketball to rodeos and includes a full-size professional ice-hockey rink. The arena seats 10,000 for concerts and 8,000 for sporting events. Read More »
