Curves in the Natchez Trace Parkway near Hillsboro, Tennessee. The "trace," or trail, is now a 444-mile-long, two-lane scenic road connecting Natchez in southern Mississippi to Nashville, the capital city of Tennessee, with a short stretch across a tip of Alabama in between. The road roughly follows a narrow Native American path from the Tennessee highlands to the Mississippi low country (and of course in the other direction). Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2021.