A True Delta Experience
If it's your first time to travel to Greenwood, Mississippi, you should know that you more than likely will be making plans to return. The city attracts international tourists, road travelers, groups and vacationers from all across the U.S.
Why?
Greenwood's famed Viking Cooking School
The Viking Cooking School might be the city’s most sought after attraction. The famed cookware giant, Viking Range, offers cooking classes to all ages in a state-of-the art cooking facility. Families, couples and groups travel from all over the country to take part in the school.
The culinary arts are also practiced to perfection in the city’s distinctive restaurants and shopping in the downtown historic district offers some of the best finds in the Delta.
Lodging to the Extremes
You'll find lodging at both ends of the spectrum in Greenwood. On one hand, you've got the Alluvian Hotel, a boutique hotel with 45 luxurious rooms and five suites that you might consider out of place in the Delta if not for the friendly service and hospitality. Just across the street, the state-of-the-art Alluvian Hotel Spa is a relaxing experience with full service exclusive facilities for men and women.
On the other hand, you’ll also find lodging experiences such as The Tallahatchie Flats, a group of six rustic sharecropper-style cabins on the banks of the Tallahatchie that vibrates with Delta heritage and blues energy.
History and Blues
Water recreation opportunities abound in Greenwood,
home of the Yalobusha and Tallahatchie Rivers
Follow the Mississippi Blues Trail to Greenwood for historic sites such as the radio station where listeners heard B.B. King for the very first time. You’ll also find Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church, the final resting place of Robert Johnson. (The real one … seriously).
Other history-related sites include the Cottonlandia Museum (which covers so much more than cotton alone) and the Greenwood Blues Heritage Museum and Gallery.