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The park features include a 24-room lodge with restaurant, 12 cottages, campground, multi-purpose trails, 18-hole golf course, and 56-acre (23 ha) lake with non-motorized boat rentals. [1] The park was sited around an existing lake, behind a dam originally built in 1938.
Lake: 192 acres (0.78 km 2) Jenny Wiley State Resort Park: Floyd County: Park: 1,771 acres (7.2 km 2) Lake: 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2) Kenlake State Resort Park: Calloway and Marshall Counties [3] Park: 1,795 acres (7.3 km 2) Lake: 160,300 acres (649 km 2) Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park: Marshall County [3] 1,351 acres (5.5 km 2) Lake ...
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration .
Referred to locally as Burnside Island, the state park offers camping, golf, and lake access via boat ramp on the south end of the island. The golf course was voted first place as the Commonwealth Journal Readers Choice Award for "Best Places to Play Golf" in 2009. [3] The following year, it placed second. [4]
Taylorsville Lake gains its name from the nearby town, named for President Zachary Taylor's father, Richard Taylor, who donated 60 acres (24 ha) of his own land for creation of the town. [1] The lake was created when the United States Army Corps of Engineers chose to dam the Salt River , thereby creating the lake, with its public opening in ...
Pine Mountain State Resort Park is a Kentucky state park located in Bell County, southeastern Kentucky, United States. Located on part of the Pine Mountain ridge in the Appalachians, the park opened in 1924 as Kentucky's first state park. Each spring since 1933, the park has hosted the annual Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival.
Of the park's 2,871 acres (1,162 ha), 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2) is Dewey Lake.The Kentucky record for largest tiger muskie was at Dewey Lake. Dewey Lake was named for the hero of the Battle of Manila Bay, Admiral George Dewey, when the United States Army Corps of Engineers built the lake in 1951.
It is centered on the 300-acre (120 ha) Greenbo Lake that features a boat dock and marina. [2] There are over 25 miles (40 km) of hiking, biking and horseback trails. The park hosts a variety of community events each year including a quilt show, murder mystery dinner theaters, scrapbooking, and a 5K race.