Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (Kentucky/Tennessee/Virginia)
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains.
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The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park celebrated the bicentennial in 2016. This special Mainstreet traveled to several of the parks during that year to learn more about parks Kentuckians may not have known about before.
Cumberland Gap Pinnacle Overlook - Best view of Tristate - TN, KY and Virginia
Address: 91 Bartlett Park Road, Middlesboro, KY 40965
Pinnacle Overlook: Cumberland Gap
By Jeremy Patton
The overlook soars near the tri-state area of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. There is a line painted on a paved path near the Pinnacle that marks the Kentucky/Virginia border, so you can stand in two states simultaneously. When I visited on 10/15/16, it was faded and barely discernable. Pinnacle Road and much of the area near the overlook reside in Bell County, Kentucky.
From the Visitor Center in Middlesboro, just off US-25E, drive approximately four miles up Pinnacle Road (A.K.A. Skyland Road). It is very steep, with an elevation change of about 1400 feet. The road is paved, well-maintained and has many switchbacks, but it is one of the last places I would drive during winter weather.
Pinnacle Road dead-ends at a small parking lot. I have never seen it filled to capacity. If you plan your visit on a cold, winter day, you might enjoy some alone-time.
A stone-work landing with interpretive signs and restrooms greet visitors near the parking lot. It is a short, easy walk to the overlook, where you can view all three states. Additional signs help discern the boundaries.
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Pinnacle Overlook is located in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Lee County, Virginia.
Leaving the visitor center, park visitors can drive the winding, four-mile-long Skyland Road up the mountain to the Pinnacle Overlook (elevation 2,440 feet) for a spectacular view into Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.
Skyland Road is periodically closed during the winter due to inclement weather.
The road is closed to vehicles 20 feet or longer in length. When park staff is available, shuttles to the Overlook can be arranged; cost is $5.00 per person.
Inquiries can be made at the park visitor center or by calling (606)248-2817.
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Cumberland Gap Visitor Center
In Middlesboro, Kentucky.
Cumberland Gap Tunnel- Cumberland Gap National Historic Park
A drive though the Cumberland Gap Tunnel, which is one of only two motor vehicle tunnels in the country that connect two states. Almost 0.9 miles in length, the Tunnel was designed to replace a winding mountain pass and to protect the sensitive archeological portions of the Park.
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Old Village, water wheels, old forge
Cumberland Gap National Park (Tri-State Peak), Middlesboro, KY October 2017
Into the wilderness of White Rocks Virginia Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
The day my husband and I embarked on a 14 mile hike! We share a love for music, The Great Outdoors, and photography.
Droning after the 2000 ft ascension hike threw my drone out of whack! But the views from its sheer 500 foot cliffs, and at nearly 3,500 feet elevation, White Rocks is the highest overlook in the tri-state area.
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Cumberland Gap Historic State Park - Pinnacle Overlook - Tennessee - Kentucky - Virginia
Love my job as a mortgage wholesaler! Traveling up to Middlesboro KY earlier this week and I stumbled upon this little jewel! Right off of 25E just as you come through the Cumberland Gap Tunnel you will find the Cumberland Gap Historic State Park and just up the road via Skyland Rd you will find Pinnacle Overlook. If you are in the area be sure to stop in and check it out!
Cumberland Gap National Park (Gap Cave), Middlesboro, KY October 2017
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Camp at Kentucky Cumberland Gap 2015
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Backroads: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
Backroads: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
The Truth About the Cumberland Gap Tunnel
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Have you ever heard of the Cumberland Gap Tunnel? It’s an amazing tunnel on highway 25E in Kentucky. It’s one of the most amazing tunnels in the world. At a glance it seems overbuilt, and extremely militaristic. Some people have even speculated that the tunnel at Cumberland Gap is more than just a way to preserve the historic Cumberland Gap. After all, that’s why this 300-million-dollar tunnel was built in the first place, to restore and preserve the Cumberland Gap back to the way it looked in the 18th century. But some people think the Cumberland Gap is much more. Grab your tinfoil hat, and let’s go for a ride through a really cool tunnel! Links to follow
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1. Searching for a Moonbow, Cumberland Falls
2. Cumberland Gap Tunnel
3. Chicago Tribune, History Walks Cumberland Gap, Bob Downing, Knight Ridder. 2004
4. National Park Service Cumberland Gap
5. Cudjo’s Cave
6. Oakridge National Laboratory
7. Oakridge Ridge Site and Clean Up
8. US Rep. Hal Rogers
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10. Everybody Hates Charlie
11. Chromium in Drinking Water and
12. Chromium-6: 'Erin Brockovich' chemical threatens two-thirds of American
13. Cumberland Falls Moonbow?
14. The Cumberland Gap Tunnel, Caves and the Water Issue
15. Corporate Jargon
16. East Tennessee Bigfoot
17. “Kentucky man Sees Bigfoot
18. Caves
19. UFO’s at the Cumberland Gap
Cumberland Gap - Tri-state marker
The tri-state marker on a mountain top marking three states
Tri-State Peak is a mountain located in the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, near the saddle of the gap. It gets its name from being on the tripoint of the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia.
The elevation at the tri-state marker is 1,990 feet (607 m). The marker can be accessed via the tri-state peak trail, (via connections with the Gap trail and the Object Lesson Road trail) and is about 1.2 miles from the park's visitor's center.
The site also includes a marker denoting the location as being on the Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665, which was marked by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Cumberland Gap is an Appalachian folk song that likely dates to the latter half of the 19th century and was first recorded in 1924. The song is typically played on banjo or fiddle, and well-known versions of the song include instrumental versions as well as versions with lyrics. A version of the song appeared in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by folk song collector John Lomax. Woody Guthrie recorded a version of the song at his Folkways sessions in the mid-1940s, and the song saw a resurgence in popularity with the rise of bluegrass and the American folk music revival in the 1950s. In 1957, the British musician Lonnie Donegan had a No. 1 UK hit with a skiffle version of Cumberland Gap.
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The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains.
The park lies in parts of Bell and Harlan counties in Kentucky, Claiborne County in Tennessee, and Lee County in Virginia. The park contains the Kentucky-Virginia-Tennessee tri-state area, accessible via trail.
The Cumberland Gap Visitor Center is located on U.S. Highway 25E just southeast of Middlesboro, Kentucky and just northwest of the Cumberland Gap Tunnel and Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The visitor center features a museum with interactive exhibits about the Gap's role as a transportation corridor, an auditorium that shows films about the area's cultural and natural history, a book store and the Cumberland Crafts gift shop with crafts from Appalachia.
Middlesboro, Kentucky Built Within A Meteor Crater Fly With Me by Russell Kaspar
Did you know that Middlesboro, Ky was built inside a meteor crater?
Posted by Dave Tabler | November 7, 2016
Middlesboro, KY is the only city in the US now known to be built within a meteor crater. William M. Andrews Jr., a geologist with the Kentucky Geological Survey, said erosion and vegetation have hidden most signs of the meteor’s impact. However, enough evidence remains, he said, to support the conclusion.
“You have the round shape, shattered rock in the middle and deformed rocks around the sides that have been bent, folded or shoved,” Andrews said. “That’s pretty strong evidence that it was a meteor impact crater.”
“Middlesboro is in this strangely round valley in the middle of Appalachia,” he said. “You don’t get round valleys here. It’s not normal.”
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The town (also spelled “Middlesborough”) was established in 1886 to exploit iron and coal deposits. The town’s founder, Alexander A. Arthur, apparently did not know of the crater’s extraterrestrial origin. Omni magazine listed the site in a 1979 article as one of the 15 outstanding craters in North America (there are more than 170 known meteor craters on the continent) and also as the most circular.
The Middlesboro Crater is located in the Appalachian Mountains, exposed to the surface, between the Cumberland Mountains and Pine Mountain. The theory is that a meteor more than 1,500 feet in diameter struck the earth here less than 300 million years ago and carved a hole approximately 3 miles in diameter, with slopes that rise as high as 1,900 feet.
As much as 80 percent of the meteor either was blown back into the earth’s atmosphere or disintegrated on impact, and life may have been destroyed within 50-100 miles of the impact. Geological maps indicate that the center of impact occurred where the YMCA pool is now on North 30th St, and that the crater perimeter ran through what is now 12th St and Cumberland Avenue intersection. Geologists believe that before the meteor hit, the area around Middlesboro may have been a wide plain, much higher than the 2,400 ft Pinnacle overlook at Cumberland Gap. Geologists say that rock formations in the area do not substantiate the theory that the Gap itself may have been created by the impact and explosion of the meteor.
sources: Kentucky Stories, by Byron Crawford(Turner Publishing, 2001)
Associated Press article in St Petersburg Times (Sept 20, 2003)
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The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains.
The park lies in parts of Bell and Harlan counties in Kentucky, Claiborne County in Tennessee, and Lee County in Virginia. The park contains the Kentucky-Virginia-Tennessee tri-state area, accessible via trail.
The Cumberland Gap Visitor Center is located on U.S. Highway 25E just southeast of Middlesboro, Kentucky and just northwest of the Cumberland Gap Tunnel and Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. The visitor center features a museum with interactive exhibits about the Gap's role as a transportation corridor, an auditorium that shows films about the area's cultural and natural history, a book store and the Cumberland Crafts gift shop with crafts from Appalachia.
The park covers 24,000 acres (9,700 ha) and is among the largest national parks in the eastern United States. As of 2010, 14,091 acres (5,702 ha) of this was designated as Recommended Wilderness. Elevation varies from a low of 1,100 feet (340 m) to a high of 3,500 feet (1,100 m).
The park runs along the Cumberland Mountains, stretching about 20 miles (32 km) with an average width of 1.6 miles (2.6 km).[6] The park straddles a tri-state area encompassing land from Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. It includes the area of the Wilderness Road running through the passage across the Cumberland Plateau and through the Cumberland Gap, an important geological feature that facilitated travel for American settlers and Native Americans.It includes 24 known cave features ranging in size from around 20 feet (6.1 m) to more than 16 miles (26 km) in length.
There are a number of large cliff systems in the park, the most prominent of which is the 500 feet (150 m) cliffs of White Rocks, located in the eastern portion of the area. At the northeastern end, the park sits adjacent to the Sillalah Creek Wildlife Management Area and the Martin's Fork Wildlife Management Area and State Natural Area.
The climate of the area is mild, with hot and humid summers and mild winters, and an average annual temperature of 54 °F
Pinnacle Overlook at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
You can hike, bike, or drive up to the Pinnacle Overlook, located on Cumberland Mountain in Lee County, Virginia, just above the historic Cumberland Gap. The overlook sits at just below 2400 feet above sea level and offers a commanding view into Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. See the spine of Cumberland Mountain as it continues southwestward along the TN/KY state line, Tri State Peak is also visible, where VA, TN, and KY meet. Beautiful views of nearby Fern Lake as well.
If you drive to the overlook, parking is located 600 feet from the viewing platform. The path is smooth and paved. There are two trails that reach the overlook, one is handicap accessible and clearly signed as such.
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