Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park

Hike sections of the Wilderness Road and Boone's Trace, see a reproduction 1939 grist mill and walk through a pioneer village museum.

998 Levi Jackson Mill Road, London, KY 40744 · London, KY

About Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park

Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park covers 896 acres just south of London and is now run by the city. Its trails, 8.5 miles in all, follow the Wilderness Road and Boone's Trace, the routes more than 200,000 pioneers took into Kentucky. McHargue's Mill, a reproduction grist mill built in 1939, displays one of the largest collections of millstones in the country, and the Mountain Life Museum is a pioneer village of seven buildings. The Defeated Camp Burial Ground marks an attack on settlers in 1786.

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