Mississippi Tourist / Travel Information

State Parks and Campgrounds---State Tourist Travel Information

Mississippi is a Southern state of the United States. The name’s origin of the state is from the Mississippi River, which flows along the western boundary. The name itself probably means “big water” in an old form of Ojibwe, a Native American language spoken around the river’s headwaters. Others nicknames attached to Mississippi are the Magnolia State and the Hospitality State. The capital and the largest city of the state is Jackson.

If you travel in your RV to the Magnolia State, you will be immersing in a culture and heritage richer than the soil of the Mississippi Delta. You can see it in the state’s museums, historical homes, Civil War site and landmarks. You can also see it reflected in the impact of the Mississippi River, in the unfolding of the Civil Rights Movement and in Mississippi’s contributions to literature and fine arts. Mississippi is the birthplace of several famous Mississippians as civil right leaders Charles and Medgar Evers, the author William Cuthbert Faulkner, the guitarist B. B. King, the singer and actor Elvis Presley, among others.

Other attractions you must visit and see are the Elvis Presley Birthplace in Tupelo, the Delta Blues Museum, the Music Hall of Fame, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library and Historic Jefferson College.