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Official website. Kenlake State Resort Park is a park located on the western shore of Kentucky Lake. The park's main entrance and most of its facilities are located in Marshall County; the park also extends into Calloway County. The mailing address of the park is Hardin, Kentucky; however, it is located much closer to the unincorporated ...
January 9, 2009. Cherokee State Park was a blacks-only state park located in Marshall County, Kentucky, near Hardin, Kentucky. It was a complement to the then-whites-only Kentucky Lake State Park (now Kenlake State Resort Park ), which was nearby. It was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which went along with the concept of the "separate ...
Jenny Wiley State Resort Park: Floyd County: Park: 1,771 acres (7.2 km 2) Lake: 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2) Kenlake State Resort Park: Calloway and Marshall Counties [3] Park: 1,795 acres (7.3 km 2) Lake: 160,300 acres (649 km 2) Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park: Marshall County [3] 1,351 acres (5.5 km 2) Lake Barkley State Resort Park: Trigg ...
Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park. Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park is a park located in northwestern Christian County, Kentucky, just south of Dawson Springs, Kentucky. The park encompasses 863 acres (349 ha) and takes its name from a colloquial form of the word pennyroyal, a small flowering plant native to the area.
Kentucky Lake is a major navigable reservoir along the Tennessee River in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was created in 1944 by the Tennessee Valley Authority 's impounding of the Tennessee River via Kentucky Dam for flood control and hydroelectric power. [2] The 160,309-acre (649 km 2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the ...
All year. Website. Official website. 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 ...
Lake Barkley State Resort Park. Lake Barkley State Resort Park is a park on the eastern shore of Lake Barkley just west of Cadiz, Kentucky in Trigg County. The park encompasses 3,700 acres (1,500 ha) [1] and is one of three Kentucky parks near Land Between the Lakes, a 170,000-acre (69,000 ha) isthmus between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. [2]
Jenny Wiley State Resort Park was founded as Dewey Lake State Park on January 1, 1954, with Dewey Lake near Prestonsburg, Kentucky as its centerpiece. It was renamed in the early 1950s for Virginia "Jenny" Wiley, a pioneer woman who is remembered as a survivor of captivity by Native Americans. It became one of the resort parks in the state in ...