INFINITY Science Center
Full-scale hardware, interactive science, wetlands, and Stennis Space Center stories connect spaceflight to the people and landscapes supporting it.
Mississippi, United States: places and wildlife — page 3
Browse the published Explore collection for Mississippi, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Vicksburg National Military Park
Earthworks, monuments, the USS Cairo, cemetery, and steep terrain explain why Vicksburg became decisive—and what victory cost soldiers and civilians.
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
The Evers family home connects civil-rights organizing, domestic life, security, assassination, grief, and Myrlie Evers-Williams’s continuing public work.
Emmett Till Interpretive Center
A community-led center beside the courthouse interprets Emmett Till’s murder, the 1955 trial, racial terror, public memory, and local work toward truth and repair.
Melrose at Natchez National Historical Park
A furnished Greek Revival estate, surviving outbuildings, grounds, and guided interpretation expose wealth, enslavement, domestic work, and postwar change.
Longwood
A vast octagonal exterior encloses an unfinished brick interior where war, enslaved labor, wealth, technology, and preservation collide.
Rowan Oak
William Faulkner’s home, office, penciled plot outline, grounds, and preserved domestic spaces connect writing practice to Oxford and Lafayette County.
Eudora Welty House & Garden
Books, typewriters, correspondence, family objects, a restored garden, and guided rooms reveal how Eudora Welty observed, revised, photographed, and lived.
Windsor Ruins
Monumental surviving columns mark a plantation mansion lost to fire, but the site’s real history includes enslaved labor, war, memory, and romantic ruin-making.
Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center
A strong interpretive center, earthworks, water feature, maps, and personal accounts frame Corinth as a strategic rail junction and occupied community.
Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site
Monuments, fields, roads, and a preserved church site explain Nathan Bedford Forrest’s 1864 victory—and the limits of a small federal parcel.
Elvis Presley Birthplace
The small birthplace house, family church, museum, memorial chapel, and neighborhood landscape place Elvis Presley’s early life before fame.
Biloxi Lighthouse
A cast-iron 1848 lighthouse, female keepers, storm history, and a compact climb make the Gulf Coast’s resilience visible from inside the tower.
Mississippi State Capitol
A Beaux-Arts capitol, legislative chambers, stained glass, public art, and current government work invite architectural and civic reading together.
Grand Village of the Natchez Indians
Three mounds, a plaza, archaeological collections, and contemporary Natchez connections explain a political and ceremonial center active into the colonial era.
Emerald Mound
One of North America’s largest mounds reveals engineered earth, community labor, elevated architecture, and Natchez Trace history through subtle topography.
Winterville Mounds
A museum, broad plaza, and multiple platform mounds interpret an important Mississippian ceremonial center and the archaeology used to understand it.
Nanih Waiya
The homeland mound at the heart of Choctaw origin traditions asks visitors to understand sovereignty, living community, sacred geography, and respectful limits.
The Crosby Arboretum
Native plant communities, the Pinecote Pavilion, pitcher-plant bogs, savannas, and woodland paths make ecology the structure of the garden.
Mynelle Gardens Arboretum & Botanical Center
Woodland paths, bridges, ponds, azaleas, camellias, perennials, and small architectural moments create an intimate garden best read slowly.
Mississippi Aquarium
A central ocean habitat, river exhibits, touch experiences, birds, and outdoor spaces interpret Mississippi waters from headwaters to the Gulf.
Hattiesburg Zoo
Animals, shaded paths, family play, conservation interpretation, and seasonal programs fit into a manageable city-park visit rather than an exhausting marathon.
The Jackson Zoo
A long-running Jackson institution offers animal habitats and education while current operations, renovations, and neighborhood context require an up-to-date plan.
Tishomingo State Park
Sandstone formations, Bear Creek, forest, swinging bridge, and CCC-era structures make northeastern Mississippi feel geologically distinct.
Clark Creek Natural Area
Dozens of seasonal cascades, hardwood ravines, rare plants, and demanding grades create Mississippi’s most surprising waterfall landscape.
Gulf Islands National Seashore — Davis Bayou
Bayou trails, fishing water, birds, alligators, campground, and visitor exhibits offer an accessible introduction to the barrier-island system.
Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge
Trails and refuge interpretation reveal an endangered nonmigratory crane, carnivorous plants, fire ecology, and one of the Gulf Coast’s rarest habitats.
Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
A coastal center, interpretive trail, salt marsh, wet pine savanna, and working research programs expose the changing edge of Mississippi Sound.
Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge
Bluff and Loakfoma lakes, bottomland forest, prairie, boardwalks, and seasonal wildlife make a strong year-round field destination near Starkville.
LeFleur’s Bluff State Park
Pearl River woods, lake edges, trails, museum connections, golf, camping, and a major playground create an unusually layered urban park.
De Soto National Forest
Pine savannas, blackwater streams, wilderness, trails, wildlife, and prescribed fire protect one of the Gulf Coastal Plain’s defining landscapes.
Natchez Trace Parkway
A 444-mile parkway links Indigenous homelands, historic travel, overlooks, wetlands, mounds, short walks, and a distinctive road landscape.
Black Creek National Recreation Trail
More than forty miles of forest, sandbars, tannin-dark water, wilderness, and primitive camps make this a serious backcountry trail.
Tuxachanie National Recreation Trail
A roughly twelve-mile forest trail passes longleaf pine, wetlands, old rail grades, creek crossings, and primitive camping in coastal Mississippi.
Mississippi Petrified Forest
A privately operated nature trail, large petrified logs, earth-science museum, and gem displays explain fossilization without requiring a field expedition.
Red Bluff
A rapidly eroding ravine of red, orange, and pale sediments creates dramatic views—and serious access, ownership, and cliff hazards.
Mississippi Delta
Flat alluvial land, levees, farms, towns, waterways, churches, and music routes form a region that must be traveled as lived geography, not one attraction.
Mississippi Delta Blues Tradition
The Delta blues is not a roadside myth or one guitar pattern; it is a living Black musical network of family teaching, churches, juke joints, radio, records, migration, labor, invention, and paying audiences.
North Mississippi Hill Country Blues
Kimbrough, Burnside, fife-and-drum, house parties, picnics, and family transmission mark a north Mississippi tradition distinct from Delta blues.
Mississippi Choctaw Basketry
Harvesting, splitting, dyeing, double weaving, pattern, kinship, and teaching make basketry a living Choctaw practice rather than a souvenir style.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Heritage
Shrimp, oysters, blue crab, finfish, immigrant labor, processing, storms, regulation, and family businesses define a working coastal food heritage.
Mississippi Sandhill Crane
This nonmigratory crane survives only around southeastern Mississippi wet pine savannas, where fire, water, distance, and careful recovery work keep a tiny population going.
Dusky Gopher Frog
A dark, secretive frog tied to fishless ponds and gopher-tortoise landscapes survives naturally in only a tiny Mississippi Coastal Plain population.
Black Pinesnake
This heavy, mostly black constrictor depends on open longleaf forest and underground small-mammal burrows across a shrinking Mississippi–Alabama range.
Ringed Map Turtle
Bright yellow shell rings and a narrow Pearl River range make this small map turtle one of Mississippi’s most distinctive river specialists.
Yellow-blotched Map Turtle
A high-spined turtle with yellow shell blotches lives only in Mississippi’s Pascagoula River system, where intact current and woody snags are essential.
Bayou Darter
This small, vivid fish exists only in the Bayou Pierre drainage, using clean, flowing gravel runs that make watershed condition immediately personal.
Pearl Darter
Once found in both Pearl and Pascagoula drainages, this slender river fish now survives chiefly in Mississippi’s Pascagoula basin.