Kitty Bryan Dill Memorial Parkway

The Kitty Bryan Dill Memorial Parkway is a rails-to-trails path that extends 3.75 miles through the eastern Mississippi community of West Point. The paved trail links five local parks along the former right-of-ways of the Columbus & Greenville and Mobile & Ohio railroads. The trail begins at South Eshman Avenue and follows the former Columbus & Greenville route west through town. At the location of the former crossing with the Mobile & Ohio (later Gulf, Mobile & Ohio), the trail turns southeast and follows the M&O route as far as East Church Hill Road. In 2005, the Kitty Dill Memorial Parkway was designated by the US Department of the Interior as a National Recreational Trail. The former Illinois Central depot still stands in town, now called the Sam Wilhite Transportation Museum in honor of the longtime Columbus & Greenville Railway chairman and president who steered the shortline through the 1970s and 80s.