Fox Kits Wilderness Survival School
Local Information & Driving Directions

Ampitheater outdoor training area	Tent camping sites	Tent camping site with cabin in distance
Bathhouse: toilet, solar shower and outdoor sink	Eight-man cabin	More tent camping sites

Staying at Fox Hollow
All students have free access to our tent camping sites (first come, first served; bring your own equipment) and bathhouse. Cabin camping costs an additional $5 per person per night (6-day courses include a total of four nights in the cabin due to the survival training exercise for an additional $20.) The first eight students who pay-in-full for packages that include a Free Cabin Upgrade will stay in the cabin at no additional charge; remaining students will still have free access to the tent camping sites.

Local Lodging

Driving Directions
Coming South on 45: From Jackson, TN, take Hwy. 45 South. At Selmer stay on 45/64 Bypass (45 becomes 45/64 Bypass, a divided highway; you would have to exit if you wanted to stay on Business 45) until Jct. 45 & 64 (first light with Exxon and Raceway Gas Stations on opposite corners). Go straight on Hwy. 64 East through a flashing caution light. After passing residential area and Steve Sweat Auto Body (on left) turn left on Ammons Road at old gray shack. Follow Ammons Rd. to “Y” in road at Oak Grove Church (church sits in middle of “Y”) – stay right. Turn right at stop sign immediately past Oak Grove Church onto Purdy Road (there is no road sign.) Go two miles. Fox Hollow is on the right at 4933 Purdy Rd. Look for our sign.

Coming North on 45: From Corinth, MS, take Hwy. 45 North to Selmer. At Jct. 45 & 64 turn right onto 64 East. Go straight on Hwy. 64 East through a flashing caution light. After passing residential area and Steve Sweat Auto Body (on left) turn left on Ammons Road at old gray shack. Follow Ammons Rd. to “Y” in road at Oak Grove Church (church sits in middle of “Y”) – stay right. Turn right at stop sign immediately past Oak Grove Church onto Purdy Road (there is no road sign.) Go two miles. Fox Hollow is on the right at 4933 Purdy Rd. Look for our sign.

Coming West on 64: From Adamsville, TN, follow 64 West. Pass Lawton, TN. Hwy. 64 will narrow from a divided highway to a five-lane. Turn right on Ammons Road at old gray shack. Follow Ammons Rd. to “Y” in road at Oak Grove Church (church sits in middle of “Y”) – stay right. Turn right at stop sign immediately past Oak Grove Church onto Purdy Road (there is no road sign.) Go two miles. Fox Hollow is on the right at 4933 Purdy Rd. Look for our sign.

Coming East on 64: From Memphis, TN, take Hwy. 64 East to Selmer. At Selmer exit 64 East to 45/64 Bypass. Follow Bypass until Jct. 45 & 64 (first light with Exxon and Raceway Gas Stations on opposite corners). Go straight on Hwy. 64 East through a flashing caution light. After passing residential area and Steve Sweat Auto Body (on left) turn left on Ammons Road at old gray shack. Follow Ammons Rd. to “Y” in road at Oak Grove Church (church sits in middle of “Y”) – stay right. Turn right at stop sign immediately past Oak Grove Church onto Purdy Road (there is no road sign.) Go two miles. Fox Hollow is on the right at 4933 Purdy Rd. Look for our sign.

Attractions/Visitor Information

Big Hill State Park

Big Hill State Park is located in Southwest Tennessee in McNairy County on State Highway 57. The park encompasses 4500 acres of magnificent timberland and hardwood bottom land. The park is influenced by tributaries of Cypress Creek and the Tuscumbia River with numerous oxbows and sloughs. The park takes its name from a 35 acre pond created by a barren area used for dirt to help construct a railroad levee across the Cypress and Tuscumbia Bottoms for the Memphis to Charleston Railroad in 1853.

The park has a thirty-two site campground with a centrally located bathhouse with hot showers and restrooms. Water is available in the campground and a play ground is with in walking distance of the campsite. There are twenty-two picnic sites available and a picnic pavilion for groups of up to 75 people. There is also a beautiful 165 acre lake that offers excellent fishing for bass, bluegill, and catfish. There is a public launch ramp for private boats, but motors are restricted to electric motors only. The park also has over 35 miles of walking and biking trails. These trails take you along boardwalks through such places as the Dismal Swamp. Wildlife abounds within Big Hill State Park. Deer, turkey, duck, coyote, fox, mink, beaver, and otter are abundant.

Buford Pusser Home and Museum

Buford Hayse Pusser was born on December 12, 1937 near Finger, Tennessee. He lived his life by his outstanding reputation. He grew up in rural McNairy County where he was a leader among the Adamsville community. He was an outstanding athlete, and played football for Adamsville High School.

Accomplished as a wrestler, Buford moved to Chicago. He was known as “Buford the Bull” in the wrestling ring, and met and married Pauline Mullins who was from West Virginia while there.

In 1961 Buford and his family moved back to Adamsville. He took a job as a law enforcement officer. Buford served as Chief of Police for three years, and then entered the race for Sheriff of McNairy County in 1964. He won, and made it his goal to clean up the illegal operations on the Tennessee-Mississippi state line. Prostitution and Gambling were among the activities that took place, and his strength and courage led him to end these violations of the law. Buford was known for "Walking Tall" due to his courageous attempts and moral leadership. Buford encountered challenges and violence as he attempted to “do the right thing”.

Buford died on August 21, 1974 in a car accident. However, he truly lives in the lives of McNairy County as he is remembered for his strength, courage, and dedication to the people thereof.

The Buford Pusser Home and Museum is available tours. His home, cars, and legends live on through this excited exhibit of Buford Pusser’s life.

Buford Pusser Home and Museum
342 Pusser Street
Adamsville, TN 38310
(731) 632-4080

Hockaday Brooms-Broomcorn Festival

The Hockaday family of Selmer, Tennessee has been growing broomcorn since the early 1900’s. These corn plants do not develop an ear, but instead develop “straw-like” stalk that grows from the top. This straw is dried, cultivated, and used to create incredible brooms.

Each September, Hockaday Brooms and the Broomcorn Festival celebrates the Broom corn. Over forty folk artists make and sell their wares along with live music, food, and entertainment for the whole family. This year marks the Ninth annual event.

Ada's "the unusual" Country Store

Amish hickory twig and oak slat rocking chairs, 30 varieties of cheese, meat and beef jerky. Seventy different homemade and other pastas Homemade bread, sandwiches, cookies, snack bars and more. Over 100 bulk spices, seasonings and dried powder soup mixes. Over 700 herbs and vitamins, over 70 different herbal teas. Dried fruits, snacks, nuts, candies, flour, meal, old fashion grits, whole grains, organic health food and gluten free products. Also homemade jams, jellies, honey, sorghum, pickled vegetables, relishes and lots more. Truckers and tour buses welcome. Open Mon. through Sat. 7 a.m. - 5 p.m

The McNairy County Historical Museum

114 North Third Street, Selmer, TN 38375; (731) 646-0018.

The historic Ritz Theater Building provides the perfect showplace to display items of the county’s history. The Museum has a unique layout with a large center gallery that displays various aspects of life in the early McNairy County. There are seven side rooms that offer a different way of viewing the history of the county. There is the School Room, the Civil War Room, the Church Room, the Healing Arts Room, and the Business and Agriculture Rooms. Come spend the afternoon and journey back to the good old days. Museum hours are Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Sun. 1-4 p.m., other times by appointment. Groups are welcome and the museum is handicapped accessible.

Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark

About 800 years ago, a town occupied the high Tennessee River Bluff at the eastern edge of the Shiloh Plateau. Archaeologists refer to the society centered at Shiloh as a “chiefdom”. On a bluff overlooking the Tennessee River, six platform mounds surrounded by over three dozen individual house mounds and encircling palisade make up the finest surviving Mississippian Moundbuilder village in the Tennessee Valley. This prehistoric culture reached the height of its influence around A.D.1200.

The six central mounds, rectangular in shape with flat tops, probably served as platforms for the town’s important buildings. These structures may have included a council house, religious buildings, and residences of the town’s leaders. The southernmost mound is an oval, round-topped mounds in which the town’s leaders or other important people were buried.

If you would like to make a reservation for your school group or gain more information about Shiloh Indian Mounds please contact:

Charlie Spearman, Park Ranger
Shiloh National Military Park
1055 Pittsburg Landing Road
Shiloh, TN 38376

Phone: (731) 689-5275
Fax: (731) 689-5450
Charlie_Spearman@nps.gov

Shiloh Park

On Sunday morning, April 6, 1862, Civil War troops clashed in the fields and woods near Pittsburg landing in the first major battle in the war’s western theater. Two days later, General Grant pushed Southern troops back to their base at Corinth, Miss. The battlefield features 151 monuments, 217 cannons, and more than 450 historic tablets. The battlefield tour starts at the visitor center where exhibits and a brief film provide an introduction to the battle. The Visitor Center/museum/bookstore are open every day, except December 25, from 8 to 5.

If you would like to make a reservation for your school group or gain more information about Shiloh National Military Park please contact:

Charlie Spearman, Park Ranger
Shiloh National Military Park
1055 Pittsburg Landing Road
Shiloh, TN 38376

Phone: (731) 689-5275
Fax: (731) 689-5450
Charlie_Spearman@nps.gov

Coon Creek Science Center

Just imagine! Clams, snails, crabs, sharks, and giant mosasaurs living in Tennessee! Coon Creek Science Center, located in McNairy County, Tennessee, has one of the most important fossil sites in North America. 70 million years ago, this area now known as West Tennessee, was covered by the ancient Gulf of Mexico and home to clams, snails, crabs, sharks, and giant mosasaur.

Acquired by the Memphis Museum System in 1988, this property contains a treasure lode of superbly preserved Upper Cretaceous marine shells and vertebrate remains left there 70 million years ago when the water of the Gulf of Mexico receded.

Open only to group bookings. Cabins available for overnight stays. Visits to the center are limited to organized groups.

For more information about Coon Creek Science Center call (731)632-4850 or (901)320-6320.

Coon Creek Science Center
2983 Hardin Graveyard Rd.