Mississippi Highway 333

MS 333 Scenic passing by a Civil War era Confederate fort just south of Grenada Dam

MS 333 Scenic northbound atop Grenada Dam

I-55 southbound at exit 211

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]

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.

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

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