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Edward Moss Gatliff Bridge. Cumberland Falls State Resort Park is a park located just southwest of Corbin, Kentucky, and is contained entirely within the Daniel Boone National Forest. [3] The park encompasses 1,657 acres (671 ha) and is named for its major feature, 68-foot-tall (21 m) Cumberland Falls. The falls are one of the few places in the ...
Cumberland Falls is the second largest waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains, and the largest waterfall as measured by water volume in the Eastern United States, south of Niagara Falls. [16] [17] The falls divides the river into two sections, the Upper and Lower, or "below the falls" section. [18]
Northrup Falls, located one mile east of the Colditz Cove State Natural Area [2] Seventy Six Falls, located in Clinton County, Kentucky. Slave Falls, located on the Fork Ridge Road Sawmill Trailhead [2] Star Creek Falls, located on the Cumberland River [3] Tioga Falls located in West Point Ky [4][5]
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.
Total height. 113 ft (34 m) Number of drops. 1. Watercourse. Yahoo Creek. Historic Yahoo Falls, also known as Ywahoo Falls (possibly of Muscogee origin, from Yahola, Yahoo Creek & Waho o in northeast Georgia), is located in Marshes Siding, McCreary County, Kentucky.
The Cumberland Mountains are a mountain range in the southeastern section of the Appalachian Mountains. They are located in western Virginia, southwestern West Virginia, the eastern edges of Kentucky, and eastern middle Tennessee, including the Crab Orchard Mountains. [1] Their highest peak, with an elevation of 4,223 feet (1,287 m) above mean ...
Kentucky has both the largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi in water volume (Lake Cumberland) and surface area (Kentucky Lake). Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 hectares) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4.9 billion cubic meters) of flood storage are the most of any lake in the TVA ...
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 ...