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DeSoto National Forest
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DeSoto National Forest
Address: 654 W Frontage Rd
Wiggins, MS 39577
Phone: 601-928-4422;
Fax: 601-928-5143;
Web: www.fs.fed.us/r8/mississippi/desoto
Size: 378,538 acres.
Location: Southeastern Mississippi. Accessible by US 49 and 98; MS 67, 15, 57, 26, 29, 13, 63, and 42. Nearby cities/towns include Biloxi, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, and Laurel.
Facilities: 25 campgrounds, cabins, dispersed camping, picnic sites, trails (230 miles), scenic drive, fishing pier, group camp.
Activities: Camping, hunting, fishing, boating, canoeing, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, ORV riding.
Special Features: Mississippi's only nationally designated scenic river, Black Creek, famous for its wide sandbars and relaxed floating pace; two wilderness areas, Black Creek and Leaf; Ashe Forest Tree Nursery, southern region's only tree nursery, built in 1936 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

See other parks in Mississippi.


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