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The Jefferson Memorial Forest is a forest located in southwest Louisville, Kentucky, in the Knobs region of Kentucky. At 6,676 acres (27.02 km 2), it is one of the largest municipal urban forests in the United States. [1] [2] The forest was established as a tribute to area war dead but ultimately this was extended to all U.S. veterans.
The Jefferson Memorial Forest is the largest municipal urban forest in the United States. The Frederick Law Olmsted Parks [1] (formerly called the Olmsted Park System) in Louisville was the last of five such systems designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. [2] All of the parks in this system are managed by Louisville Metro Parks.
In 2007, the 10-mile (16 km) Mill Creek Trail was completed, connecting the Levee Trail and The Riverwalk, ending at Lee Lane in Riverside Gardens. A small stretch of the Mill Creek Trail had been completed in 2002 by LG&E, on whose property much of the trail is located, which ran from Greenwood Rd. to Mill Creek. An extension added by the city ...
Map of the Trace. The Trace was created by millions of migrating bison that were numerous in the region from the Great Lakes to the Piedmont of North Carolina. [2] It was part of a greater buffalo migration route that extended from present-day Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky, through Bullitt's Lick, south of present-day Louisville, and across the Falls of the Ohio River to Indiana, then ...
Blackacre State Nature Preserve is a 271-acre (110 ha) nature preserve and historic homestead in Louisville, Kentucky. The preserve features rolling fields, streams, forests, and a homestead dating back to the 18th century.
The (Louisville) Courier-Journal published a story in 2008 about the “discovery” of an estimated 40 rusting drums inside Jefferson Memorial Forest, noting a push by state and federal ...
The table below includes sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jefferson County, Kentucky except those in the following neighborhoods/districts of Louisville: Anchorage, Downtown, The Highlands, Old Louisville, Portland and the West End (including Algonquin, California, Chickasaw, Park Hill, Parkland, Russell and Shawnee).
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