South of Spring Hill, the Natchez Trace Parkway is two lanes under a hardwood canopy, with no billboards and no truck traffic to share them with. At Meriwether Lewis a piece of the Old Trace survives as a sunken road, worn down below the forest floor on either side, and it's the walk to take once the rig is settled. The campground there is free, so a family motorhome can stretch a few days out of the parkway without a campground bill running in the background. The week runs down past Jackson Falls to those woods, then back up for a night on hookups before home.
Jackson Falls, Meriwether Lewis, and Fall Hallow Village on the Trace
Jackson Falls comes up first, at milepost 404.7, where water slides down a face of mossy rock into a high valley. There's a picnic shelter and a restroom by the trailhead, so it makes the lunch stop before the last stretch to camp.
Meriwether Lewis is down at milepost 385.9, and it's worth reaching well before the afternoon. The campground takes no reservations and has no hookups as of October 2026, and spring and fall weekends fill it fastest, holiday weekends most of all. Roll in with a full fresh tank and charged batteries, and the rig can sit quietly under the trees for a night or two.
When the tanks need attention, the hookup night happens at Fall Hallow Village, a private campground at milepost 391 off US-412 with electric and water. It's a short hop from Meriwether Lewis, so the order that works is dry nights first while the water is fresh, then the night with the air conditioning running and the tank refilled. From there the rig heads back toward Spring Hill, or keeps going to David Crockett State Park for a slower second half.
David Crockett State Park and Shoal Creek, at Lawrenceburg
Shoal Creek runs alongside Campground 1 at David Crockett State Park in Lawrenceburg, and Crockett Falls and the park's water-powered gristmill give each day somewhere to wander. After a few nights moving down the Trace, out to the south-west, the rig can stay leveled here for the rest of the week with the awning out and nobody in a hurry to pack up.
Both campgrounds have water and electric hookups, and the Park Service lists David Crockett's sites as back-in only, so whoever drives should be comfortable reversing a long rig into place.
Closer to Spring Hill, Henry Horton State Park on the Duck River, Mule Day at Maury County Park, and the antebellum houses at Rippavilla, the Carter House, and Carnton all make good shorter outings. For those, or for a two-person trip that would rather skip backing a big rig into a creekside site, the Spring Hill campervan page covers the smaller-rig version. If the week you want is the city, parked with Nashville by day, the Nashville RV page has that trip, with the rest of the state on the Tennessee RV page.