Location: Mississippi in USA
Nearest Airport:
Memphis at 60
Miles
Nearest Train:
Memphis at 60
Miles
Nearest Motorway:
Highway 7 ande Highway 6 at 5
Miles
Nearest Beach:
beach at 550.0
Miles
Car: necessary
If you are on this site, you don't have to be 'sold' on Oxford or the surrounding area but, as natives we have our favorite places our friends and family must see. Don't come to Oxford in a hurry. Give yourself time to see it before or after the crush of a football game when it is normal and not a circus. Eat at Taylor Grocery. Be sure and find Yocona River Inn. Both places are in the county. Remember the county is dry but you can bring your own 'bag'. Try not to drive everywhere! Park near the square, go up to the second floor of Square Books, get a cup of something, and sit on the porch and watch the folks, then start walking. Walk down South Lamar, or better yet, one street west to Rowan Oak, Faulkner's home. Take the trail behind his house to where it comes up behind the baseball field. Walk to the Lyceum (bullet holes), then find the Confederate Cemetery behind Tad Smith Coliseum. Pay your respects then take University Avenue and doglegging on Van Buren to the POB.