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Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration .
Numbers and classifications are posted on signs at intersections as well as on trail maps that can be viewed on several kiosks on the property or purchased at a trailhead. Due to the geography of Black Mountain, trails vary in elevation and often include hill climbs and descents. Elevation ranges from 1,180 ft to 3,321 ft above sea level. [3]
However, some road maps published after the 2000s still identify The Trace as KY 453 and SR 49. [13] [14] The recreation area itself, however, was established in 1963 after the TVA built the Kentucky Dam and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers impounded the Cumberland River to build the other dam that created Lake Barkley. The state road ...
The Daniel Boone National Forest (originally the Cumberland National Forest) is a national forest in Kentucky.Established in 1937, it includes 708,000 acres (287,000 ha) of federally owned land within a 2,100,000-acre (850,000 ha) proclamation boundary.
The summit of Black Mountain, August 2013 Black Mountain summit plaque. Route 160 east of Lynch and west of Appalachia crosses the mountain. The summit is reached by a narrow road that turns off to the right (coming from Lynch or to the left, if coming from Appalachia) at the Kentucky-Virginia line (the gap that is the highest part of Route 160) and leads past a Federal Aviation Administration ...
Near the Tri-Cities, rockhounding is popular along the Columbia River, Horse Heaven Hills, Saddle Mountains, Bickleton and the Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park. Rockhounding on WA DNR-managed land
My Old Kentucky Home State Park: Bardstown: 285 acres (1.2 km 2) Nolin Lake State Park: Edmonson County: Park: 333 acres (1.3 km 2) Lake: 5,795 acres (23 km 2) [4] Old Fort Harrod State Park: Harrodsburg: 15 acres (0.06 km 2) Paintsville Lake State Park: Johnson County [3] Park: 242 acres (1.0 km 2) Lake: 1,139 acres (4.6 km 2) Pine Mountain ...
National Recreation Trails in Kentucky (1 P) R. Rail trails in Kentucky (4 P) Pages in category "Hiking trails in Kentucky"