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Location: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area Only about a half hour’s drive southwest from Cumberland Falls, you’ll find the largest waterfall in Kentucky, measuring 113 feet high.
Cumberland Falls in 2005. The following is a list of waterfalls in the US state of Kentucky. Bad Branch Falls Kentucky, in Letcher County near source of Cumberland River; Cumberland Falls, located in the Cumberland Falls State Resort Park; Dog Slaughter Falls, located downstream of the Cumberland Falls State Resort Park [1]
Pages in category "Natural arches of Kentucky" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The natural sandstone arch spans 78 ft (24 m) and is 65 ft (20 m) high. The natural process of weathering formed the arch over millions of years. The park is approximately 2,300 acres (9 km 2), of which around 1,200 acres (5 km 2) is dedicated by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves as a nature preserve.
The Red River Gorge is a canyon system on the Red River in east-central Kentucky, United States.Geologically it is part of the Pottsville Escarpment.. The gorge lies within the Daniel Boone National Forest and was subsequently designated the Red River Gorge Geological Area, an area of around 29,000 acres (12,000 ha; 120 km 2; 45 sq mi). [1]
The Cumberland Plateau is a deeply dissected plateau, with topographic relief commonly of about 400 feet (120 metres), and frequent sandstone outcroppings and bluffs.. At Kentucky's Pottsville Escarpment, which is the transition from the Cumberland Plateau to the Bluegrass in the north and the Pennyrile in the south, there are many spectacular cliffs, gorges, rockhouses, natural bridges, and ...
After a short visit at the arch, I turned around to hike the other trail to the waterfalls. This trail was a bit longer and required crossing a big creek, but the crossing was easy.
An early map of the Falls of the Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky is in the lower right The area is located at the Falls of the Ohio, which was the only navigational barrier on the river in earlier times. The falls were a series of rapids formed by the relatively recent erosion of the Ohio River operating on 386-million-year-old Devonian hard ...