Sports & Outdoors
Outdoor AdventureCumberland Falls State Resort Park
No admission feeSee the 68-foot Cumberland Falls pour a 125-foot-wide curtain of water and, on clear full-moon nights, a rare moonbow.
Corbin, KY
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Things to do in Daniel Boone Country
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Three to see first in Daniel Boone Country
Sports & Outdoors
History BuffCumberland Gap National Historical Park
No admission feeStand at Pinnacle Overlook above the mountain pass Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road crossed, where three states meet.
Middlesboro, KY
Eat & Drink
Quirky FunHarland Sanders Café and Museum
No admission feeEat in Colonel Sanders' restored 1940s dining room and see the kitchen where his fried chicken recipe took shape.
Corbin, KY
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Sports & Outdoors
Outdoor AdventureCumberland Falls State Resort Park
No admission feeSee the 68-foot Cumberland Falls pour a 125-foot-wide curtain of water and, on clear full-moon nights, a rare moonbow.
Corbin, KY
Sports & Outdoors
History BuffCumberland Gap National Historical Park
No admission feeStand at Pinnacle Overlook above the mountain pass Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road crossed, where three states meet.
Middlesboro, KY
Eat & Drink
Quirky FunHarland Sanders Café and Museum
No admission feeEat in Colonel Sanders' restored 1940s dining room and see the kitchen where his fried chicken recipe took shape.
Corbin, KY
Sports & Outdoors
Outdoor AdventureNatural Bridge State Resort Park
No admission feeHike or ride a sky lift to a sandstone arch 78 feet long and 65 feet high in the woods near the Red River Gorge.
Slade, KY
Sports & Outdoors
Outdoor AdventureRed River Gorge
No admission feeHike to sandstone arches, climb the cliffs or paddle the Red River in this gorge inside Daniel Boone National Forest.
Slade, KY
Museums
McCreary County Museum
Under $25Local history museum in Stearns, Kentucky, set inside a former coal and lumber firm's office building.
Stearns, KY
Sports & Outdoors
Pine Mountain State Resort Park
Check pricesA Kentucky state park on a Pine Mountain ridge in the Appalachians, known as the state's first.
Pineville, KY
Sightseeing
Fort Boonesborough State Park
Check pricesKentucky state park preserving the site of a frontier fort founded by Daniel Boone's party in 1775.
Boonesborough, KY
Sports & Outdoors
History BuffLevi Jackson Wilderness Road Park
Check pricesHike sections of the Wilderness Road and Boone's Trace, see a reproduction 1939 grist mill and walk through a pioneer village museum.
London, KY
Sightseeing
History BuffMill Springs Battlefield National Monument
No admission feeWatch a short film on the January 1862 Union victory, then follow a 10-stop driving tour and a ravine trail across the Kentucky battlefield.
Nancy, KY
Sports & Outdoors
Buckhorn Lake State Resort Park
Check pricesA Kentucky state resort park built around a mountain reservoir in northwest Perry County.
Perry County, KY
Sightseeing
Big South Fork Scenic Railway
$25–$50A vintage tourist train in Appalachian Kentucky that runs round trips to Blue Heron through the Big South Fork area.
Stearns, KY
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Sports & Outdoors in Daniel Boone Country
- Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, Corbin
- Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Middlesboro
- Natural Bridge State Resort Park, Slade
- Red River Gorge, Slade
- Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville
- Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park, London
- Buckhorn Lake State Resort Park, Perry County
- Kingdom Come State Park, Cumberland
- Wilderness Road State Park, Ewing
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About Daniel Boone Country
Daniel Boone Country covers the forested hills of southeastern Kentucky, with Corbin as a handy base for lodging. Corbin is home to the Harland Sanders Cafe & Museum, the original Kentucky Fried Chicken, and nearby Cumberland Falls State Resort Park has the waterfall called the Niagara of the South. Cumberland Gap National Historical Park has a visitor center museum and the Pinnacle overlook, and Natural Bridge State Resort Park is the gateway to the Red River Gorge, a National Natural Landmark with an estimated 150 natural arches.
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Nearest help
Hospital with an emergency room · 7.2 mi from the center
AdventHealthManchester
210 Marie Langdon Drive, Manchester, KY 40962
Police · 7.3 mi from the center
Manchester Police Department
102 Richmond Rd, Manchester, KY 40962
Fire station · 1.1 mi from the center
Fogertown Fire Department
9988 Highway 638, Manchester, KY 40962
In an emergency, call 911.