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Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville, KY

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Sports & Outdoors

Pine Mountain State Resort Park

A Kentucky state park on a Pine Mountain ridge in the Appalachians, known as the state's first.

Pineville, KY

About Pine Mountain State Resort Park

This public recreation area sits in southeastern Kentucky on part of the Pine Mountain ridge. It opened in 1924 as the first state park in Kentucky. Each year it has hosted a mountain laurel festival since 1933. Part of the grounds is protected as a nature preserve.

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