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Guided tours of the Hensley Settlement and Gap Cave are provided from the tourist center. [14]: 17 Around 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the center, along the Skyland Road, lies the Pinnacle Overlook, which, at an elevation of 2,440 feet (740 m), overlooks the gap and the surrounding country. [14]: 19 [17]
Hensley Settlement is an Appalachian living history museum on Brush Mountain, Bell County, Kentucky in the United States.The settlement is part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and it is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of the park visitor center on Ridge Trail.
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
Extends into Harlan County, Claiborne County, Tennessee and Lee County, Virginia: 5: Hensley Settlement: Hensley Settlement. January 8, 1980 Cumberland Gap National ...
Attractions listed in the park include Hensley's Settlement, the Pinnacle Overlook, the Sand Cave, and the White Rocks overlooking the towns of Ewing and Rose Hill in Virginia. Lee County is a dry county for hard liquor, although retail sales are permitted.
It gets its name from being on the tripoint of the state of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. The elevation at the tri-state marker is 1,990 feet (610 m). [ 2 ] The marker can be accessed via the "tri-state peak trail," (via connections with the Gap trail and the Object Lesson Road trail) and is about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the park's visitor ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
The tri-point of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia is located about 0.15 miles (0.24 km) northeast of the tunnel, between the tunnel and the Cumberland Gap. Less than 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) past the southern portal of the tunnel is a parclo interchange with the western terminus of U.S. Route 58 (US 58), and the route crosses a railroad about ...