The Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA) Historic Convoy Across the Jefferson Highway – from Pine to Palm has announced its next transcontinental convoy will take place October 1-31, 2024. The convoy stop overnight in Mansfield on Oct. 23. 

The convoy retraces the historic 1918 Jefferson Highway route from the Minnesota border to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 30 days, driving over 2,500 miles.

This is the eighth MVPA-HA Convoy promoted by the MVPA-HA, and the first to travel on a north-south axis through the center of the country. The convoy will celebrate the 15th year of the program created at the Little Rock MVPA Convention in 2006.

The Jefferson Highway 2024 convoy has been designed to encompass American history along the route with multiple stops at historic sites such as: the headwaters of the Mississippi River, parts of the Red River Trail (voyageurs’ oxcart trail) from Winnipeg to St. Paul, the Pony Express Museum, Old Fort Leavenworth, National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, the old Army Road along the frontier to Fort Scott and southward to the old Spanish Road, the Louisiana “Patton” maneuvers area, Fort Polk, and ending with the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. Less well-known but interesting stops will include original Jefferson Highway historical locations, the Border War between Kansas and Missouri, the John Brown Museum and cabin, and sites of Civil War battles and skirmishes.

DPJ will share more information closer to the arrival of the convoy.