Worth the trip from Grand Junction: Graceland Too, 24 mi off
Roughly 347K visitors a year make it to Shiloh National Military Park. No place to visit is mapped inside Grand Junction; 6 are within 40 miles. The commonest are 3 museums, 2 gardens and a national military park. Further afield lies SS Sultana, at 53 mi.
SS Sultana
US steamboat that exploded on April 27, 1865.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
Finding your way
The list reaches out to Corinth Depot, 39 mi away.
Orange: Grand Junction. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
Everything to see
These 37 are within 60 miles, none in town.
2Vaught–Hemingway Stadium
Outdoor athletic stadium at the University of Mississippi.
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4National Civil Rights Museum
Hotel that was site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., now a museum.
5Natchez Trace Parkway
49,000 acres managed by the National Park Service.
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7Blues Hall of Fame
Award by Blues Foundation, since 2015 also a music museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
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9Graceland Too
Two-story home and shrine to Elvis Presley in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
10Shiloh National Military Park
National military park in Tennessee and Mississippi, United States.
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14Chickasaw Gardens
Human settlement in Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America.
Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site
Battlefield in Mississippi, United States.
Boling-Gatewood House
Historic house, home of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum.
Art Museum of the University of Memphis
Abbreviation for the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Tennessee.
Lichterman Nature Center
Arboretum and nature center in East Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Edge Motor Museum
Automobile Museum in Memphis Tennessee, focusing on classic American Cars.
Oaklawn Garden
Botanical garden, park, local history museum in Germantown, Tennessee.
Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Grand Junction → · Grand Junction’s history →
Photo credits
SS Sultana: Template:Thomas W. Bankes, Public domain · Vaught–Hemingway Stadium: Matthew Nichols, CC BY 2.0 · Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · National Civil Rights Museum: Matthew T Rader, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Natchez Trace Parkway: Carol M. Highsmith (1946–), Public domain · FedExForum: Marco Espino-Ovalle, Public domain · Blues Hall of Fame: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mid-South Coliseum: bcbuckner, CC BY 2.0 · Graceland Too: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]), CC BY 3.0 · Shiloh National Military Park: Ernest Mettendorf, Public domain · Memphis Zoo: Unicurse, CC BY 3.0 · Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pinson Mounds: Brian Stansberry, CC BY 3.0 · Chickasaw Gardens: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]), CC BY 3.0 · Stax Museum: Victor Chapa from Denton, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Orpheum Theatre: Claire H. from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: Michael Gäbler, CC BY 3.0 · Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site: Wilson44691, Public domain · Dixon Gallery and Gardens: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Metal Museum: No machine-readable author provided. JeremyA assumed (based on copyright claims), CC BY-SA 2.5 · Children's Museum of Memphis: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Boling-Gatewood House: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Burkle Estate: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Memphis Botanic Garden: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Art Museum of the University of Memphis: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lichterman Nature Center: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · The Cotton Museum: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Corinth Depot: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0 · Edge Motor Museum: KyleStockton92, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fire Museum of Memphis: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY 3.0 · Jesse H Turner Park: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY 3.0 · Memphis Railroad & Trolley Museum: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]), CC BY 3.0 · Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Oaklawn Garden: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0
