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Brigadoon State Nature Preserve is a state nature preserve located in Barren County, Kentucky adjacent to Barren River Lake. [1] The Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves purchased 92 acres (37 ha) of mostly mature forest from the Nature Conservancy that was dedicated into the preserve system on March 14, 1985. An additional 88 acres (36 ha) were ...
Outdoor native wildlife enclosures and native plant trails, indoor exhibits, programs, website: Lost River Cave: Bowling Green: Warren: South Central Kentucky: cave tours by boat, 68 acres with 3 miles of trails, nature center Louisville Nature Center: Louisville: Jefferson: North Central: 41 acres in Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve
Barren River Lake State Resort Park is a 1,053-acre (426 ha) park located in Barren County, Kentucky and extending into parts of Allen County and Monroe County. [2] Barren River Lake, its major feature, is an artificial lake created with the building of a 146-foot-high (45 m) dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begun in 1960.
Glasgow is a home rule-class city [3] in Barren County, Kentucky, United States. It is the seat of its county. [4] Glasgow is the principal city of the Glasgow micropolitan area, which comprises Barren and Metcalfe counties. The population was 15,014 at the 2020 U.S. census. [5] The city is well known for its annual Scottish Highland Games.
Bat Cave was dedicated as part of the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves system on December 16, 1981, for the protection of the Indiana bat with wintering numbers estimated at 28,000. The Cascade Caverns preserve was included to protect two rare plant species in Kentucky, the mountain maple and the Canadian yew. [1] [2]
Tourists inside the cave. The park's mission is stated in its foundation document: [7] The purpose of Mammoth Cave National Park is to preserve, protect, interpret, and study the internationally recognized biological and geologic features and processes associated with the longest known cave system in the world, the park’s diverse forested karst landscape, the Green and Nolin rivers, and ...
Pages in category "Caves of Kentucky" ... Great Saltpetre Cave; H. Horse Cave, Kentucky; L. Lost River Cave; M. Mammoth Cave National Park; Mantle Rock Archeological ...
Barren County is a county located in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,485. [1] Its county seat is Glasgow. [2]