Kentucky State Parks and Kentucky Horse Park Open for Daytime Use Only

The Kentucky Department of Parks has announced today that the Kentucky Horse Park and all 49 state parks sites will be open to the public for daytime use only to reduce the potential spreading of the coronavirus (COVID-19). All state park lodges, cottages, restaurants, and campgrounds are closed effective April 3, 2020. The move was announced Thursday via email media release and during Gov. Andy Beshear press conference with the goal of expanding upon on the #HealthyAtHome initiative, mitigating opportunities for people to form gatherings, and discouraging interstate travel.

Gerry Seavo JamesApril 2, 2020Kentucky State ParksComment

Breaks Interstate Park Re-bolting Initiative

From December 6 -January 1 we’re donating $500 from the the sales of our EKI Boot and EKI No.3 Decals to help match a grant from the Access Fund to the Southwest Virginia Climbers Coalition to re-bolt several routes with modern hardware at our partner organization Breaks Interstate Park.

The Explore Kentucky Must List: Waterfalls (Pt 2)

Greetings fellow waterfallers and explorers to the latest installment of the Explore Kentucky Must List: Waterfalls! Last time, in Part 1, we visited 5 waterfalls which stretched from outside of Berea to the Daniel Boone National Forest a few miles downstream from Cumberland Falls. Here, with Part 2 we’re going to pick up with where we left off and begin with The Big Falls itself, Cumberland Falls, and make our way into the less visited Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and then back into the Daniel Boone National Forest. So take a seat and let’s continue on our journey to Kentucky's beautiful falling waterways...

Birding for Millennials

There are many ways to walk on a trail. There are times when I walk in order to talk with a friend, get to know a person. Other times, I walk by myself, wondering as I wander like the Kentuckian folksinger John Jacob Niles. When, at 26 years old, a misplaced Kentuckian living in Montana, I learned how to “bird,” I found yet another way to walk, a way where my tinkering mind quieted, and I could hold each present moment, lingering in the forest, in the meadow, by the wetland, with my binoculars fixed to my eyes, watching wild birds do their secret magic of flying, full of hollow bones, covered in a quilt of feathers.

Day Two: The Trip To RRG (Half Moon)

I called the Forest Services's Gladie Ranger Station to see if Chimney Top Road was open. We found out it would be opening soon so while waiting we headed out to Swift Camp Creek Trail #219 by Rock Bridge where we quickly jumped off into the creek with our waders on and fly rods in hand.

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