Best
Trails of Kentucky
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#1.
Courthouse Rock
and Double Arch
A commanding ridgetop view
of the Red River Gorge,
and an unusual rock arch.
Courthouse Rock, a boulder
the size of an office building,
is one of the landmarks
of the gorge area. Another
is Double Arc...
From the guidebook "Hiking
Kentucky"
Hiking
Trails
Stanton, KY - Hiking - 6.1
miles
#2. Bernheim Forest
Quiet ridgetops and hollows
in a handsome hardwood forest.
For decades Bernheim Forest
offered hikers only relatively
short paths, most of them
less than 2 miles. In the
year 2000, however, Bernheim
r...
From the guidebook "Hiking
Kentucky"
Hiking
Trails
Louisville, KY - Hiking
- 13.6 miles
#3. Mammoth Cave
Park Long Loop
Scenic hollows and ridgetops
along the Green and Nolin
Rivers. Mammoth Cave, the
largest cave system in the
world, has more than 350
miles of known underground
passageways and possibly
hundreds of mor...
From the guidebook "Hiking
Kentucky"
Hiking
Trails
Bowling Green, KY - Hiking
- 15.7 miles
#4. Mammoth Cave
Tours
The 32-mile Ferry Loop crosses
two ferries on its way around
the western two-thirds of
the park. It follows gravel
roads for six miles of its
length. The Flint Ridge
Loop covers 12 miles of
the easter...
From the guidebook "Mountain
Bike! Ozarks"
Hiking
Trails
Mammoth Cave, KY - Mountain
Biking - 32 miles
#5. Gray's Arch
A 50-foot-high natural arch,
and a small, shady creek
with inviting wading pools.
Natural arches are formed
over thousands of years
as water and wind eat away
soft rock and leave harder
strata behind....
From the guidebook "Hiking
Kentucky"
Hiking
Trails
Stanton, KY - Hiking - 3.3
miles
#6. Koomer Ridge
A forest walk, much of it
on or near ridgetops, to
a small rock arch and a
scenic stream. Logging,
aided by the construction
of rail lines, came to this
remote gorge with a vengeance
in the late 1800s...
From the guidebook "Hiking
Kentucky"
Hiking
Trails
Stanton, KY - Hiking - 7.7
miles )
#7. Berea Forest
Five overlooks with striking
views of rolling central
Kentucky farmland. Located
in the town of the same
name, Berea College is a
highly rated liberal arts
school that gives a tuition-free
education t...
From the guidebook "Hiking
Kentucky"
Hiking
Trails
Berea, KY - Hiking - 6.7
miles
#8. Jefferson County
Forest
Pleasantly wooded ridges
and hollows with limited
views north toward the Ohio
River and Indiana. Local
officials call the Jefferson
County Memorial Forest the
nation’s “largest
public urban forest.”
T...
From the guidebook "Hiking
Kentucky"
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Trails
Louisville, KY - Hiking
- 13 miles
#9. North - South
Trail
Quiet coves and ridgetops
along Kentucky Lake. Whatever
its exact length, the trail
is a lovely backpacking
route along Kentucky Lake,
with a good mix of shoreline
stretches and ridgetop bluffs.
There...
From the guidebook "Hiking
Kentucky"
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Trails
Calvert City, KY - Hiking
- 31 miles
#10. Yahoo Falls
Kentucky’s highest
waterfall, and a walk along
Big South Fork. This hike
starts and ends in the Daniel
Boone National Forest, but
most of the walking is in
the Big South Fork National
River and Recrea...
From the guidebook "Hiking
Kentucky"
Hiking
Trails
Whitley City, KY - Hiking
- 8.5 miles
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