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Nada Tunnel is a historic 900-foot (270 m) long tunnel along Kentucky Route 77 in Powell County, Kentucky, in the United States. [1] [2] Formerly a railway tunnel, the tunnel has often been described as the "Gateway to Red River Gorge" for the shortcut it provides motorists to the Red River Gorge canyons of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
To enter the Gorge through Nada Tunnel, turn left onto KY-15 and then right onto KY-77. A quote for your week: “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not ...
Nada Tunnel is a 900-foot-long (270 m), 12-foot-wide (3.7 m), and 13-foot-high (4.0 m) logging tunnel built between 1910 and 1912. Rock and dirt were removed by dynamite, steam drills, and hand tools. One man was killed during tunnel construction when he attempted to thaw frozen dynamite which exploded when he set it near a fire. [6]
Grant's Bend Tunnels, twin rail tunnels, CSX Transportation CC Subdivision in Ryland Heights, Kentucky. Nada Tunnel, KY 77, Powell County, near Red River Gorge Park, built for logging. Leatherwood Tunnel, twin tunnels, at Leatherwood in Perry County on KY 699.
Built in the early 1900s so logs could be hauled out of the gorge by railroad, the 900-foot Nada Tunnel now allows one-lane traffic. A very long exposure in 2006 captured only the taillights of ...
Kentucky: Red River Gorge Scenic Byway The Red River Gorge Scenic Byway takes a 45-mile route over several highways and state roads from Stanton to the historic Nada Tunnel.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Powell County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Pages in category "Tunnels in Kentucky" ... Nada Tunnel; O. Ohio River Bridges Project This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 09:46 ...