Duncan Park Golf Course

The oldest golf course in Mississippi sits inside the oldest public park in the state — a nested inheritance that speaks to how early Natchez turned wealth into civic ground. Duncan Park opened in 1902, laid out on land donated in 1849, half a century before the first tee. Nine holes roll through terrain anchored by Auburn mansion, every fairway framed by live oaks that were here before the game arrived. This is municipal golf — green fees around fifteen dollars, walking allowed, pro shop on site, open daily. The course doesn't apologize for what it isn't. What it offers is continuity: a city that was the territorial capital, the southern terminus of the Natchez Trace, and the second-largest slave market in the nation also knew how to set aside land for public use before the Civil War. Duncan Park is what came of that impulse. The live oaks remember more than golf, but they frame the fairways all the same.