Golf in Picayune

Picayune is the Pearl River County seat in the piney woods of south Mississippi near the Louisiana border. The community's name derives from the Spanish and Creole small coin, reflecting the area's French and Spanish colonial heritage in the lower Mississippi corridor. Picayune's proximity to New Orleans — approximately an hour's drive on I-59 — gives it economic and cultural ties to Louisiana's largest city, and the surrounding pearl River County pine forest creates the recreational and natural setting that defines life in this corner of south Mississippi. The Picayune Strand State Forest across the border in Florida connects ecologically to the pine flatwood systems of Pearl River County, creating a broader natural landscape that sustains wildlife and outdoor recreation.