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John James Audubon State Park is located on U. S. Route 41 in Henderson, Kentucky, just south of the Ohio River. Its inspiration is John James Audubon, the ornithologist, naturalist, and painter who resided in Henderson from 1810 to 1819 when Henderson was a frontier village. [2] The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
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 County [3] Park: 3,600 acres (15 km 2) Lake: 57,920 acres (234 km 2) Lake Cumberland State Resort Park.
Green River State Forest is the only state forest in Kentucky that contains significant amounts of bottomland hardwoods and swampland, with the swamplands and sloughs being dominated by bald cypress, cottonwood, and river birch, and the bottomlands dominated by oak, pecan, and red maple. The upland forest is dominated by oak, hickory, sugar ...
Our columnist says he owes Kentucky’s 100-year-old state parks system his life. ... Lexington Herald-Leader columnist Andrew Henderson is pictured at the age of three or four looking up at ...
Rough River Dam State Resort Park. / 37.61083°N 86.50472°W / 37.61083; -86.50472. Rough River Dam State Resort Park is a Kentucky state park encompassing 637 acres (258 ha) [ 1] on Rough River Lake in Grayson county. Rough River Dam of 1959, stretching 1,590 feet (480 m) across and 135 feet (41 m) high, creates Rough River Lake, a ...
Henderson is a home rule-class city [4] along the Ohio River and the county seat of Henderson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 29,781 at the 2020 U.S. census . It is part of the Evansville–Henderson, IN–KY Combined Statistical Area , locally known as the " Tri-State Area ," and is considered the southernmost suburb of ...
Fort Boonesborough State Park is located southeast of Lexington, Kentucky, on the west bank of the Kentucky River in rural Madison County. has a recreation of Fort Boonesborough rebuilt as a working fort, containing cabins, bunkhouses and furnishings. The park offers history programs in conjunction with the Fort Boonesborough Foundation, [4 ...
And Mrs. W.C. Malone [1] Lake Malone State Park is a 338-acre (137 ha) state park located near Dunmor, Kentucky, in Muhlenberg County and extending into parts of Logan County and Todd County. [2] In addition to the 788-acre (319 ha) Lake Malone, the natural features of the park include sandstone cliffs and a natural rock bridge.