U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Highway
Administration

Associate Administrator
John Baxter
202-366-9494
john.baxter@dot.gov
www.fhwa.dot.gov/flh/

Federal Lands Highway
provides planning,
design, and engineering
services to support the
highways and bridges
that provide access to
and within federally
owned lands.

Federal Lands Divisions

Eastern
Federal Lands

Eastern Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Melisa Ridenour
703-404-6201
melisa.ridenour@fhwa.dot.gov
www.efl.fhwa.dot.gov

September 2007
See FLH website for sources

Fact Sheet

Mississippi FLHP

MS FLHP road miles: 1,058 Funding Authorized FY 98 – 07: $148,370,000 Federal land acreage as percentage of total state area: 4.8%* MS population: 2,910,540
National Park Service (7 units) U.S. Forest Service (6) Bureau of Indian Affairs/ Tribal Governments (1) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (14) This percentage includes Federal lands that are not part of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map

A photo of the Natchez Trace Parkway The Federal Lands Highway Program in Mississippi. On May 21, 2005 in Natchez, Mississippi over 1,000 people attended ceremonies to celebrate the completion of the Natchez Trace Parkway, which runs from Natchez to Nashville, Tennessee. The parkway is a testament to the longstanding partnership between the National Park Service (NPS) and Eastern Federal Lands (EFL). The roadway is designed and constructed to fit its physical setting and preserves scenic, aesthetic, historic and environmental resources, while maintaining safety and mobility.This combination of teamwork, planning, landscape and engineering design skills, and construction techniques were the beginning of what is now called “context-sensitive solutions.”

From 1998 through 2005 the Mississippi Department of Transportation, City of Natchez, the NPS and the EFL worked collaboratively and overcame significant obstacles to secure funding, acquire right-of-way, and complete the construction of the final phase of the parkway. The result is a 444-mile Parkway that meanders through the rural South in a manner that suggests the road itself was never constructed, and exists as a natural part of the landscape and its surroundings—a National Park where the roadway is the Park itself.

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