Mississippi

Of course rivers are the blood of Mississippi—when you share the name of the second longest river in the United States, as well as the river itself, you can’t help but be synonymous with rivers. Apart from the Mississippi, the other major rivers in Mississippi are the Pearl, Pascagoula, and Tombigbee, along with their main tributaries the Tallahatchie, Yazoo, Big Black, Leaf, and Chickasawhay rivers. All rivers in Mississippi eventually flow into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Pascagoula River, pictured above, is on the Nationwide Rivers Inventory as a potential wild and scenic river.

Mississippi has approximately 81,316 miles of river, of which 21 miles of one river, Black Creek, are designated as wild & scenic—less than 3/100ths of 1% of the state’s river miles.