In our continuing quest to visit all the National Park sites, Tom and I made a trip to visit Camp Nelson National Monument. Camp Nelson is located in Nicholasville, Kentucky, southwest of Lexington. It took us a couple of hours to drive up to it. The site is one of the newest in the National …
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Campground Update
Tom and I moved from our full hook-up site on June 28 to an electric only site. I thought I would give you a campground update on how I feel about living at the Wilderness Road Campground. As I mentioned before, Tom and I usually get a full hook-up site when we work in the …
Main Duty at Cumberland Gap NHP
While we are at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, my main duty is living history. When we first got here, the rangers all seemed to assume that Tom and I would spend every day doing living history. Living history is fine and Tom has several talks that he can give. But my living history program …
Fitness Trail at Cumberland Gap
Next to the Visitors Center at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a Fitness Trail. The trail is two miles long and meanders through the area behind the Visitors Center, through Bartlett Park, and around the parking lot. The second day Tom and I reported for work here at Cumberland Gap, we walked the Fitness …
Mice Ate My Handwoven Towels!
Mice ate my handwoven towels! I had three towels left from my last batch. The others had all been gifted to the wonderful rangers we work with here at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. Ranger Layton, the Volunteer Coordinator, was the only one who hadn’t gotten a towel yet. On the one day we worked …
Campground Programs at Cumberland Gap
Every Saturday night there is a Campground Program at Cumberland Gap Wilderness Trail Campground. These have been a fun addition to our activities over the summer. We have attended two of the programs and led one. Rachel, our Bat Education intern, leads a Night Hike every other week. She does the same walk and talk …
Skylight Cave at Cumberland Gap NHP
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park has over 85 miles of trails. Skylight Cave is a popular destination along those trails. After the Wilderness Road Trail, it is the most hiked trail in the park. But only a small number of people hike anything except the Wilderness Road Trail. A lot of people who come to …
Wilderness Road Trail Leads to Cumberland Gap
Wilderness Road Trail is one of the most popular trails in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The Wilderness Road refers to the trail widened by Daniel Boone into a road. The road led settlers into Kentucky through the Cumberland Road. Although it has been called a road since 1775, it was usually more of a …
Gap Cave Tour at Cumberland Gap NHP
The Gap Cave Tour at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is the busiest tour in the park. The cave tour is offered every day from Memorial Day to the middle of August. After that the tour decreases to three or four days a week until the end of the September when the tours stop. The …
Iron Furnace at Cumberland Gap NHP
Sometimes people come to Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and they aren’t hikers. They ask what they can drive to. The Pinnacle is the first place we send them, but the second place is the Iron Furnace. The Iron Furnace is the oldest man-made structure in the park. It is located in the town of …