![]() ![]() While hiking downhill, you know you’ll have to pay the price on the other side of the hollow, but it’s not overly taxing. Some of the loop is along a ridge top, but soon enough, it drops into a hollow, where a small stream cuts a serpentine route along the forest floor. You go deep into the woods, but you never meet the devil. It’s short enough that it’s unlikely to wear you out, and it’s definitely family friendly. Just follow the white blazes on the trees. Go clockwise or counterclockwise, and you come back to the same spot. You begin with a half-mile that is mostly flat and straight before you intersect a 2.5-mile-long loop. Leave your vehicle behind to walk on what looks on a map to be in the shape of a lollipop. You’ll find the trailhead at Mile Marker 394. Tennessee’s Devil’s Backbone Natural Area is a 950-acre parcel adjacent to the Natchez Trace Parkway. Your stroll on the Devil’s Backbone Trail, however, is a breeze. In the early 1800s, the trace was an arduous trek from Natchez, Mississippi, to Middle Tennessee, a route frontier travelers used to return to the interior after floating goods down the Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. The trail is short, only 3.5 miles long, and it takes its name from an old nickname for the Natchez Trace itself, according to the Hohenwald-Lewis County Chamber of Commerce.Ī simple plank is the footbridge across the small creek at the bottom of the Devil’s Backbone Trail hollow. ![]() That’s the case for hiking the Devil’s Backbone Trail, a stop southwest of Nashville along the 444-mile-long Natchez Trace Parkway. – A hike of reasonable length on a brisk winter day can be invigorating, especially if the trail has an intriguing name and is part of a larger travel experience. White blazes on hardwood trees mark the 3.5-mile-long lollipop-shaped Devil’s Backbone Trail. Hiking along the Devil’s Backbone on the Natchez Trace Parkway ![]()
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