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Breaks Interstate Park is located about 5 miles (8 km) east of Elkhorn City, Kentucky. The park covers 4,500 acres (1,800 ha). The park's main feature, Breaks Canyon, is five miles long and ranges from 830 to 1,600 feet (250 to 490 m) deep. The canyon was formed by the Russell Fork river through millions of years of erosion. [9]
Copper Breaks is an International Dark Sky Park [3] and hosts a stargazing program once a month from April through October. The park's Bortle Scale rating is a Class 2, which indicates there's a very low amount of light pollution there which makes it a great place for celestial photography.
The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is a national monument in the western United States, protecting the Missouri Breaks of north central Montana.Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), it is a series of badland areas characterized by rock outcroppings, steep bluffs, and grassy plains; a topography referred to as "The Breaks" (as the land appears to "break away" to the river).
Breaks is located very close to the Kentucky border and is east of Breaks Interstate Park. Breaks gets its name in reference to the "break" in Pine Mountain, a mountain range that spans along the Kentucky-Virginia border and ends near the community of Breaks. [2] It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 144. [3]
Cedar Breaks National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in the U.S. state of Utah near Cedar City. Cedar Breaks is a natural amphitheater , stretching across 3 miles (4.8 km), with a depth of over 2,000 feet (610 m).
Pine River Breaks Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada in the Peace River Lowland between the communities of East Pine and Chetwynd 55°41′00″N 121°22′00″W / 55.68333°N 121.36667°W / 55.68333; -121
The visitor center was built in 1937 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the National Park Service Rustic style. The visitor center is located on the rim of the Cedar Breaks amphitheater, overlooking the stone rock formations. It was constructed of peeled logs with dramatically extended ends, cut to a tapered buttress shape.
Calling this an "Interstate" park obscures the kind of park this is. No indication that this is a National Park Service park, or a Kentucky state park, or a Virginia state park, or even a privately owned park. Perhaps I made a hasty reading of the linked website, but Wikipedia should tell us more.--DThomsen8 00:14, 2 June 2009 (UTC)