The Shack Up Inn is nestled three miles south of the Hwy 61 and Hwy 49 crossroads outside Clarksdale on one of the oldest cotton farms in Mississippi, the former Hopson Plantation. These down-home accommodations are nine sharecropper shacks slightly renovated and appropriately furnished with a potent dose of memorabilia. The Shack Up Inn is also known as Mississippi’s oldest B&B – ‘bed and beer.’ The houses were relocated from nearby farms, insulated, and retrofitted with electricity and plumbing. A live satellite Blues feed is piped into the television sets. Otherwise, the houses look pretty much the same as back in the day with their rusted tin roofs, leaning outhouse, washhouse and bottle tree. In addition to the shacks, the bins in the old cotton gin are unconventional upscale hotel rooms. The hotel lobby is located in the gin as is the Juke Joint Chapel, where you can hear great Blues.
