Mississippi Highway 333

Mississippi Highway 333
Mississippi Highway 333
Location	Grenada County
Length	0.454 mi (731 m)
Existed	1958–present

Mississippi Highway 333 Scenic
Mississippi Highway 333 Scenic
	MS 333 Scenic in red, official designated segment of MS 333 in blue
Route information
	Maintained by MDOT
Length	17.206 mi (27.690 km)
Existed	1958–present
Major junctions
South end	I-55 / MS 7 / MS 8 in Grenada
	US 51 in Grenada; MS 8 in Grenada; MS 7 near Grenada; I-55 near Grenada;
North end	US 51 near Grenada
Location
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
Highway system
	Mississippi State Highway System; Interstate; US; State;

Mississippi Highway 333 (MS 333), signed as Mississippi Highway 333 Scenic (MS 333 Scenic), is a 17.2-mile-long (27.7 km) north-south state highway located entirely in Grenada County, Mississippi. It connects Grenada Dam and Hugh White State Park with the city of Grenada and Interstate 55 (I-55).

Mainline MS 333 covers only the portion of the highway between MS 8 to Old Highway 8 (near Hugh White State Park). The MS 333 Scenic designation covers the entire route, entirely overlapping its parent route, with this being the only instance in Mississippi where a scenic route not only overlaps the entire length of its parent route, but its parent route also being entirely unsigned.

Route description[edit]

MS 333 Scenic begins in the city of Grenada at an interchange with Interstate 55 (I-55)/MS 7 (exit 206). It heads southeast, concurrent with MS 8, as a four-lane divided highway through a major business district, where it has an intersection with South Street, before narrowing to an undivided highway to curve eastward and pass through neighborhoods. The highway has an intersection with U.S. Route 51 (US 51) before traveling along the southern side of downtown for several blocks to cross a bridge over Batupan Bogue. They now pass through the neighborhood of Futheyville, where MS 333 Scenic splits off and heads north as a two-lane road. Here, this is the officially designated section of MS 333. It almost immediately has an intersection with Old Highway 8 (which provides access to nearby Hugh White State Park) where MS 333 ends, and MS 333 Scenic leaves the Grenada city limits winding its way north through some hilly woodlands for a few miles (passing by a civil war era confederate fort) to cross the dam's spillway (inadvertently also crossing the Yalobusha River) before having its first intersection with Toe Road (provides access to MS 332) before passing directly over top of Grenada Dam. The highway has another intersection with Toe Road as it passes by the North Abutment Campground before leaving the dam area and winding its way through hilly, wooded terrain for the next several miles. MS 333 Scenic comes to an intersection with MS 7, which lies not even 500 feet from the Yalobusha County, and they head southwest through farmland for several miles to have another interchange with I-55 (exit 211) just south of the community of Hardy. MS 333 Scenic ends here, MS 7 splits off to head south along I-555, and the road ahead is unsigned MS 729 which travels for 0.3 miles (0.48 km) to come to an end at an intersection with US 51.^[3]

History[edit]

MS 333 Scenic originated in 1958 as MS 333, a new highway to connect MS 7 and MS 8, as well as the city of Grenada and surrounding areas, with the then new constructed Grenada Dam, built in 1954. It also served as a replacement for a nearby highway that was flooded out due to the newly formed lake, Mississippi Highway 335 (MS 335). When Scenic routes were being designated across northern Mississippi in the 1960s, MS 333 was resigned entirely as MS 333 Scenic (though the designation is still technically active). The highway is still referred to by locals as simply Highway 333.^{[citation needed]}

Major intersections[edit]

The entire route is in Grenada County.

Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Grenada	0.000	0.000	I-55 / MS 7 north – Jackson, Memphis MS 7 south (Sunset Drive) / MS 8 west – Greenwood, Cleveland, Holcomb	Southern end of MS 8 concurrency; southern terminus; I-55 exit 206
	2.185	3.516	US 51 (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard/Commerce Street) – Duck Hill, Tillatoba, Oakland
	4.370	7.033	MS 8 east – Calhoun City MS 333 begins	Northern end of MS 8 concurrency; southern terminus of unsigned mainline MS 333
	4.824	7.763	Old Highway 8 – Hugh White State Park; MS 333 ends	Former MS 8 east; access road into park; northern terminus of unsigned mainline MS 333
	6.588	10.602	Toe Road to MS 332 – Grenada Municipal Airport, Grenada, Outlet Channel Campground	Access road to MS 332
	9.141	14.711	Toe Road to MS 332 – Grenada Municipal Airport, Grenada, Outlet Channel Campground	Access road to MS 332
	13.000	20.921	MS 7 north – Coffeeville, Water Valley, Oxford	Southern end of wrong-way MS 7 concurrency
	16.505– 17.206	26.562– 27.690	I-55 / MS 7 south – Grenada, Memphis MS 729 begins	Northern end of wrong-way MS 7 concurrency; I-55 exit 211; western terminus of unsigned MS 729
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus