Arkabutla Lake Known for its large crappie, this project offers camping, swimming, and excellent sailing. Special events include a Deer Hunt For Persons With Disabilities.
Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site Located on MS Hwy 370 west of Baldwyn, this one-acre site commemorates a battle which had one objective-- make impossible the threat of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest to interfere with General William T. Sherman's railroad supply line from Nashville to Chattanooga during the Atlanta campaign.
Forrest scored a decisive victory over General S.D. Sturgis' Union forces when they met at Brices Cross Roads on June 10, 1864. The Union lost five men to every Southern casualty and General Forrest's troops managed to capture desperately needed supplies, including guns, ammunition, cannon, and wagons.
The battle was considered a major tactical victory for the Confederacy, but did not diminish the effectiveness of Sherman's campaign as supplies continued to flow. The site contains a brochure dispenser, two cannons, a monument to the battle, and an interpretive wayside.
Dahomey NWR Dahomey NWR consists of 9,100 acres including 1,050 acres of agricultural lands, 8,100 acres of bottomland hardwood forested wetlands, 500 acres in various stages of reforestation, and 50 acres for roads and administrative purposes. Most of Dahomey's woodlands are wet from November through May from ponded rainfall in shallow depressional areas. Migratory waterfowl use the agricultural areas and a green timber reservoir while deer and wild turkey are common in the forest interior and around the edges of the agricultural fields. In the winter, six species of woodpeckers can be seen along with barred owl, great-horned owl and eastern screech-owl. During the summer months, Neotropical migrants such as Mississippi kite, summer tanager, ruby-throated hummingbird, wood thrush, yellow-billed cuckoo, blue-grey gnatcatcher, great-crested flycatcher, eastern wood-pewee, Acadian flycatcher, hooded warbler, prothonotary warbler, Swainson's warbler, white-eyed vireo and red-eyed vireo can be found on the refuge. Dahomey is truly an island of forested wetlands in a sea of agricultural land and represents a vestige of natural habitats.
Enid Lake Just off I-55, this lake has a fishing pier for the handicapped below the dam and an equestrian trail in addition to its numerous campsites and day use facilities.
Grand Bay Reserve The Grand Bay Reserve is one of the most biologically productive estuarine ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico region, supporting several rare or endangered plant and animal species, numerous important marine fishery resources, diverse habitat types and important archaeological sites.The reserve is of major ecological significance because of its diverse range of habitats. It encompasses coastal bay, expansive saltwater marshes, maritime pine forest, pine savanna and pitcher plant bogs. It supports extensive and productive oyster reefs and seagrass habitats. It serves as nursery area for many of the Gulf of Mexico's important recreational and commercial marine species, such as shrimp, blue crab, speckled trout, red fish. The area is used for recreational and commercial fishing, birding and aesthetic enjoyment.
Grenada Lake Grenada Lake, MS, on the Yalobusha and Skuna Rivers, is home to the "Thunder on Water" festival held annually in June. A visitor center, fitness trail and tennis courts are just some of the recreation opportunities located on the lake in addition to camping, boating and picnicking facilities. Civil War redoubts are located on Grenada Lake project lands and Civil War reenactments take place here.
