Sheltowee # Name Mi. Help protect archaeological sites and habitat for Tarr Trace threatened and endangered species. Ridge 100 Lost Branch 201 Double Arch Trail 2.19 202 Courthouse Rock Trail 2.40 Picnic 239 DON’T CAMP OR BUILD FIRES Area 203 Auxier Branch Trail 0.80 204 Auxier Ridge Trail 2.06 IN ROCKSHELTERS OR ALONG THE CLIFFS. 205 Gray's Arch Trail 0.30 206 Cliff Trail 0.46 207 Rock Bridge Trail 1.30 77 208 Hidden Arch Trail 1.00 613 Osborne 240 209 Daniel Boone Hut Trail 0.70 164 Sheltowee Bend Trace 100 210 Bison Way Trail 0.46 23 214 Sky Bridge Trail 0.85 215 Koomer Ridge Trail 0.10 216 Whittleton Branch Trail 1.80 Courthouse 217 Whittleton Arch Trail 0.20 Rock 218 Angel Windows 0.30 Bison Gladie 219 Swift Creek Camp Trail 6.70 77 Way 210 220 Koomer Ridge Trail 2.30 201 Ravens Trail Cultural-Environmental Rock Learning Center 221 Rough Trail 7.82 Haystack 100 223 Pinch-em Tight Trail 1.40 23 197 Double Rock RED RIVER Tower Rock 225 Silvermine Arch Trail 1.32 Arch 77 Trail 226 Buck Trail 1.50 203 715 SCENIC 229 227 Rush Ridge Trail 1.00 Aux. 202 BYWAY Princess 228 Wildcat Trail 1.76 Br. Footbridge Arch 229 Tower Rock Trail 0.48 Trail SCENIC Courthouse 715 233 Osborne 233 Princess Arch Trail 0.28 Rock Trail BYWAY Bend 201 234 Whistling Arch Trail 0.20 240 235 Chimney Top Trail 0.30 235 10 Auxier 77 Rough 239 Lost Branch Trail 1.60 204 Trail Primitive SCENIC To Ridge Chimney Camping BYWAY 240 Osborne Bend Trail 6.65 Stanton Trail 221 Top Rock Sky Bridge NOTE: This map is not intended for 39 Nada 214 Tunnel Rough use as a trail map. If you plan on Gate 77 hiking any of the longer trails, and if 77 Gray's Trail Nada Arch 10 you are not familiar with the area, SCENIC 221 227 221 BYWAY 77 Rough 205 we suggest using trail maps showing 39 Trail Rush topography. Maps can be obtained Ridge Sheltowee 234 Trace from the locations listed on the back 39 Trail 715 Tunnel Ridge D. Boon 205 100 Whistling of this brochure. 15 Road (#39) goes 223 Arch 11 OVER and does Hut 209 100 The Sheltowee Trace National 223 Rough Clifty not intersect with 39 Rough Trail & 221 Trail Recreation Trail (Trail #100) traverses KY 77 and Nada 100 Sheltowee SCENIC Tunnel 100 221 Rough Trail the entire length of the Daniel Boone BYWAY Tunnel. KY 77 Pinch -Em Trace goes THROUGH Ridge 221 Wilderness National Forest. Part of the Sheltowee Road Primitive Tight & 226 Trace passes through the Red River Nada Tunnel. 77 Sheltowee Camping Buck 220 Gorge. The trail is marked by a Trace Primitive Angel Trail Koomer Camping diamond-shaped blaze or a turtle Ridge Windows 219 symbol. KWAY Trail N. PAR Swift Camp 15 MT Creek Trail The clifflines of B S the Red River Slade ERT T. MB (Exit CO 220 Gorge are 33) SCENIC BYWAY beautiful, but 15 Sheltowee Koomer 228 they are also 208 Ridge 225 715 Trace 100 dangerous. SCENIC Hidden Campg. Silvermine Wildcat 219 Please be BYWAY Whittleton 216 Arch Arch Trail 11 Branch Trail 220 careful. 206 Cliff 217 Trail Swift Whittleton SCENIC Camp Arch BYWAY Creek 219 A pass is required for parking Closed to all motorized vehicles Trail overnight in the Gorge and Natural Bridge State Resort Hemlock and mountain bikes. Park, adjacent to Red River Lodge Whittleton 221 Trail Parking Area Indian Creek Area (between Gorge Geological Area, is Campground 39 Road Picnic Tables SCENIC the hours of 10 Closed Gate 715 administered by Dept. Natural Bridge Dev. Camping BYWAY p.m. and 6 a.m.). of Parks. It offers lodge rooms, 23 Gravel Road Restroom State Resort 715 State Hwy. Scenic View Passes are cabins, dining facilities, and two 11 Mtn. Parkway 207 Park Point of Interest available in local developed campgrounds. For River more information, call the park Canoe In/Out stores and at the Scenic Byway at (606) 663-2214, or Sheltowee Disabled Acc. SCENIC Rock District Office in (800) SCENIC Clifty Wilderness Lodging BYWAY 207 Trace BYWAY Bridge Stanton. 255-PARK (7275) Middle Fork National Forest Dining Pine Campground State Park Amphitheatre 2004/B 100 Ridge

District Office. District logging railroad during the early 1900’s. early the during railroad logging

vandalism to the Stanton the to vandalism close to you at all times. Don't let them run. them let Don't times. all at you to close to one-lane traffic only, was built for use by a by use for built was only, traffic one-lane to

law. Report looting or looting Report law. • Watch your children carefully, and keep them keep and carefully, children your Watch • Tunnel, located along KY 77. This tunnel, open tunnel, This 77. KY along located Tunnel,

by state and federal and state by you if you slip. you if you Red River Gorge is through the 900-foot Nada 900-foot the through is Gorge River Red

resources are protected are resources Trees and bushes can’t be trusted to hold to trusted be can’t bushes and Trees Nada Tunnel. Tunnel. Nada An interesting way to enter the enter to way interesting An

All artifacts and cultural and artifacts All • Watch your footing when walking near cliffs. near walking when footing your Watch •

permitted on designated trails. designated on permitted

use a flashlight. a use

do the same. the do

trails in the Red River Gorge. Horses are Horses Gorge. River Red the in trails

travel after dark, stay in familiar areas and areas familiar in stay dark, after travel

encourage others to others encourage

and all motorized vehicles are prohibited on prohibited are vehicles motorized all and

• Foot travel after dark is not safe. If you must you If safe. not is dark after travel Foot •

• Obey all signs and signs all Obey •

trails are open to hiking only. Mountain bikes Mountain only. hiking to open are trails

avoid getting close to cliffs. to close getting avoid

rocks.

designated National Recreation Trails. These Trails. Recreation National designated

• Alcohol and cliffs don’t mix! If you drink, you If mix! don’t cliffs and Alcohol •

soil, dig, or move or dig, soil,

Trails within the Red River Gorge have been have Gorge River Red the within Trails

• Plan to arrive at your destination before dark. before destination your at arrive to Plan • • Do not disturb the disturb not Do •

and 23 feet high. feet 23 and may be closer to the edge than you realize. you than edge the to closer be may • Do not collect or dig for artifacts. for dig or collect not Do •

accessible arches is Sky Bridge, 75 feet long feet 75 Bridge, Sky is arches accessible • Avoid camping near the edge of cliffs. You cliffs. of edge the near camping Avoid • • Do not disturb rock shelters. rock disturb not Do •

trails. One of the best known and most and known best the of One trails.

these sites: these

killed by a fall from a cliff. a from fall a by killed

be found or viewed from the 60 miles of hiking of miles 60 the from viewed or found be

destroyed they are gone forever. To preserve To forever. gone are they destroyed

year, visitors are injured or injured are visitors year,

Hiking Trails. Trails. Hiking Many arches in the Gorge can Gorge the in arches Many

with whom we have shared this land. Once land. this shared have we whom with

are also dangerous. Every dangerous. also are

common inheritance from past generations past from inheritance common

forested slopes and narrow stream valleys. stream narrow and slopes forested

Gorge are beautiful, but they but beautiful, are Gorge

unmistakable evidence of earlier lives - a - lives earlier of evidence unmistakable

shelters, and towering cliffs encircling steep, encircling cliffs towering and shelters,

The clifflines of the Red River Red the of clifflines The

These fragile archaeological resources are resources archaeological fragile These

This 12,646-acre area features arches, rock arches, features area 12,646-acre This SAFETY

designated as wilderness by Congress in 1985. in Congress by wilderness as designated farmsteads still tell their stories. their tell still farmsteads

CLIFFLINE Wilderness, a rugged and undeveloped area undeveloped and rugged a Wilderness, Campsites, old buildings, and historic and buildings, old Campsites,

Clifty Wilderness. Clifty Within the Gorge is Clifty is Gorge the Within settlement by colonial Europeans moving west. moving Europeans colonial by settlement

Thomas Walker, and Daniel Boone preceded Boone Daniel and Walker, Thomas

backdrop for more than 100 natural arches. natural 100 than more for backdrop

and adventurers such as Christopher Gist, Dr. Gist, Christopher as such adventurers and

ridges, and cliffs that provide a stunning a provide that cliffs and ridges,

was occupied by the Shawnee and other tribes, other and Shawnee the by occupied was through fall from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 5:30 to a.m. 9:00 from fall through

spectacular views of heavily forested slopes, forested heavily of views spectacular

In later times, history records that the area the that records history times, later In Center is open seven days a week during spring during week a days seven open is Center

million years of wind and water, the Gorge offers Gorge the water, and wind of years million

and souvenirs are available for purchase. The purchase. for available are souvenirs and

Gorge provide many clues about how they lived. they how about clues many provide Gorge contribute to its uniqueness. Sculpted by 70 by Sculpted uniqueness. its to contribute

and other information. Maps, passes, books passes, Maps, information. other and

archaeological sites scattered throughout the throughout scattered sites archaeological and variety of natural stone arches in the Gorge the in arches stone natural of variety and

the area. The Center provides trail, camping trail, provides Center The area. the

Americans left no written records, but records, written no left Americans Natural Stone Arches. Stone Natural The number, size, number, The

unique resources and spectacular geology of geology spectacular and resources unique

people who lived in the Gorge. These Native These Gorge. the in lived who people

the District Office in Stanton. in Office District the Center. Learn about the cultural heritage, cultural the about Learn

providing insight into the lives of prehistoric of lives the into insight providing

Passes are available from local stores and at and stores local from available are Passes Gladie Cultural-Environmental Learning Cultural-Environmental Gladie Archaeology. Archaeological studies are studies Archaeological

Creek area (between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.). 6 and p.m. 10 (between area Creek

in the Gorge that dates back to the late 1800's. late the to back dates that Gorge the in

canoeist a memorable trip. memorable a canoeist for parking overnight in the Gorge and Indian and Gorge the in overnight parking for

reconstructed log house, is the only structure only the is house, log reconstructed

and Scenic River, the Red River, offers the offers River, Red the River, Scenic and

Note: Visitors are required to purchase a pass a purchase to required are Visitors Note:

Gladie Historic Site Historic Gladie . The Gladie Cabin, a Cabin, Gladie The . The Red River. River. Red The Kentucky’s first National Wild National first Kentucky’s

character, and public safety. public and character,

end of October. of end species and their habitat. their and species

wildlife, spectacular geological features, primitive features, geological spectacular wildlife,

is in full operation from mid-April through the through mid-April from operation full in is other agencies are working to protect these protect to working are agencies other

and enjoyment and to protect its watershed, its protect to and enjoyment and

available during the off season. Koomer Ridge Koomer season. off the during available the Gorge their home. The Forest Service and Service Forest The home. their Gorge the

Forest. It is managed for year-round public use public year-round for managed is It Forest.

remain open year round, although no water is water no although round, year open remain and rare species of plants and animals make animals and plants of species rare and

the Gorge is a part of the Daniel Boone National Boone Daniel the of part a is Gorge the

on a first-come, first-served basis. Tent sites Tent basis. first-served first-come, a on A number of endangered, threatened, sensitive, threatened, endangered, of number A

Forest Service. A National Natural Landmark, Natural National A Service. Forest

tables, and an amphitheater. Sites are available are Sites amphitheater. an and tables, history contribute to the diversity of the area. the of diversity the to contribute history

area designated and managed by the USDA the by managed and designated area

grills, lantern posts, drinking water, picnic water, drinking posts, lantern grills, Geographic location, topography, and glacial and topography, location, Geographic

Geological Area, a unique and scenic natural scenic and unique a Area, Geological

Area with trailer/tent spaces, vault toilets, fire toilets, vault spaces, trailer/tent with Area an unusual array of plant and animal life. animal and plant of array unusual an

WELCOME

to the Red River Gorge River Red the to

Koomer Ridge Campground Ridge Koomer is a U.S. Fee U.S. a is Plants and Animals. Animals. and Plants The Gorge supports Gorge The

REGULATIONS INFORMATION Observe these simple rules to help us protect You may request information about trail Daniel Boone the forest and ensure a safe and pleasurable conditions, trail maps, and recreation trip for you and other forest users. opportunity guides from: Camping is NOT permitted: Stanton Ranger District • Within 300 feet of any road. 705 W. College Avenue • Within 300 feet of any developed trail. Stanton, KY 40380 • In any picnic or parking area. 606-663-2852 Red River Gladie Cultural-Environmental Learning Center 300 FEET 3451 State Route 715 Frenchburg, KY 40322 Gorge Do not camp in rockshelters. 606-663-8100 These sensitive areas provide critical habitats Stanton Ranger District for plants and animals. Supervisor’s Office 1700 Bypass Road 1. Camping is PROHIBITED within 100 feet Winchester, KY 40391 of the base of any cliff, or the back of any 859-745-3100 rockshelter. Visit our website at: 2. YOU ARE PROHIBITED from building, http://www.southernregion.fs.fed.us/boone/ maintaining, attending, or using a fire, Directions: From Interstate 64, take exit 98 campfire, or stove fire within 100 feet of to the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway. From the base of any cliff, or the back of any the parkway, take exit 33 (Slade) and turn left rockshelter. onto KY 11. To access Gladie through Nada Tunnel, turn left onto KY 15, travel 1.5 miles 100 FEET west and turn right onto KY 77. Then follow 77 to KY 715 and turn right. Stay on 715 and • Rock climbing is permitted. However, new follow the signs to Gladie. route development must be approved by the NOTE: Visitors are required to purchase a pass Forest Service. Climbing and rappelling are for parking overnight in the Gorge and Indian NOT PERMITTED within 300 feet of Sky Bridge, Creek area (between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.). Gray’s Arch, Nada Tunnel, and Chimney Rock Passes are available from local stores and at Overlook, and other areas as posted. the District Office in Stanton. • Keep vehicles on established roads. All

vehicle traffic is restricted to roads in the 75 71 68 Geological Area. Lexington Grayson Louisville Frankfort 64 • Parking on Tunnel Ridge Road is limited to 64 65 23 60 PKY 402 designated parking sites only. MTN. P Owensboro Elizabethtown Richmond KY. 31E PKY 27 • You must purchase a pass for Pikeville PKY 80 KENTUCKY 2004 parking overnight in the Gorge and Bowling Somerset Green 80 Barbourville Indian Creek area (between 10 Hopkinsville Glasglow 68 p.m. and 6 a.m.). Passes are 65 31E 75 25E Forest Service available from local stores and at R8-RG 240 Revised July 2004 the District Office in Stanton. 2004/B USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. Department of Agriculture