General Burnside Island State Park is the only island state park located in Kentucky. The park has a launch ramp, picnic areas, grills, shelters, golf and camping sites. Top Five Things To Do Play the award winning “Best Public” golf course in Kentucky. Launch your own or rent a boat to explore Lake Cumberland. Overnight […]
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This vast wildlife management area is actually located within the Daniel Boone National Forest. Covering over 6,000 acres, Cane Creek WMA is mostly steep, hilly terrain. The WMA is open to statewide hunting regulations, and hunters usually hunt for whitetail deer, wild turkey, squirrel & some other small game.
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The Carr Creek Lake Marina is a full service facility with a boat ramp, boat rentals, an overlook, picnicking and public restrooms.
Located in Clinton and Cumberland counties in Kentucky and Overton and Pickett counties in Tennessee, Dale Hollow is one of Kentucky’s oldest artificial lakes, impounded in 1943 from the Obey River, and one of the earliest lakes built by the Corps of Engineers. The lake has 27,700-acres of water. Come float the pristine waters and
Carr Creek Lake was once home to some of the area’s earliest pioneer settlements as early as the 1770s. Carr Fork, a tributary of the North Fork of the Kentucky River, is located 8.8 miles below Carr Creek Dam, and is thought to have gotten its name from William Carr, a well-known Long Hunter who
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Ranked number 30 in the nation by Field and Stream magazine for bass fishing. This is a 780 Acre Sportsman Fishing Lake. Pontoon and small fishing boats are welcome. 500,000 fish have been stocked in the lake to include large mouth bass, crappie, redear sunfish and blue gill. Great place to come and relax with
The topography consists of gently sloping hills in a 300-ft buffer zone around the lake. Approximately half of the acreage is forested and half is in an open condition. Good to moderate populations of squirrel, rabbits and songbirds exist on the area. Good to moderate numbers of waterfowl use the lake during spring and fall
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The Central Kentucky Wildlife Refuge is a 500-acre preserve, located 13 miles from Danville in the Parksville knob land and bordering a stretch of the beautiful North Rolling Fork. The refuge is open to all as a protected area for the enjoyment and study of nature in its many fascinating forms — a large, typical
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In southeastern Kentucky’s Bell County, high on the vaulted slopes of Pine Mountain a large rock outcropping looms menacingly over the small town of Pineville. Chained Rock was officially fastened to the adjacent cliff in the summer of 1933; allegedly to protect the city of Pineville from calamity should the ominous boulder perched precariously above town become
