The Zachary Taylor Parkway is a highway that stretches from
Alexandria, Louisiana, to
Poplarville, Mississippi
Poplarville is a city in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 2,894. It is the county seat of Pearl River County. It hosts an annual Blueberry Jubilee, which includes rides, craft vendors ...
. The corridor traverses eight
Louisiana parishes and one
Mississippi county. Traveling through it, motorists encounter a diverse mix of small towns, scenic countryside, homegrown businesses, agricultural areas, tourist attractions, and plantations, but also areas beset by poverty.
Route
The parkway extends approximately , stretching from
Interstate 49 (I-49) near Alexandria and
Pineville on the west, crossing
I-55 near
Amite, and continuing all the way to
I-59
Interstate 59 (I-59) is an Interstate Highway located in the southeastern United States. It is a north–south route that spans from a junction with I-10 and I-12 at Slidell, Louisiana, to a junction with I-24 near Wildwood, Georgia.
...
near Poplarville.
The
John James Audubon Bridge, completed and opened in 2011, is a
Mississippi River crossing between
Pointe Coupee and
West Feliciana parishes in south central Louisiana. The bridge has the second longest cable-stayed span in the Western Hemisphere (after Mexico's
Baluarte bridge
The Baluarte Bridge ( es, Puente Baluarte), officially the Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge ( es, Puente Baluarte Bicentenario), is a cable-stayed bridge in Mexico. It is located between the municipalities of Concordia in Sinaloa and Pueblo Nuevo in ...
, though its total length is four times that of the Mexican bridge) and replaces the ferry between the communities of
New Roads and
St. Francisville.
References
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Parkways in the United States
Roads in Louisiana
Roads in Mississippi
Transportation in Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Transportation in Pearl River County, Mississippi