Tennessee & Kentucky

Land Between The Lakes offers all the outdoor recreation "basics", with some unique opportunities for environmental education and historic interpretation.  With more than 170,000 acres and 300 miles of undeveloped shoreline, you'll discover a wide range of opportunities. Land Between The Lakes has five fee lake access areas and 16 camping areas offering year-round lakeside camping.

When the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers were impounded to create Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, an inland peninsula was formed. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy designated the peninsula Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area in an effort to demonstrate how an area with limited timber, agricultural and industrial resources could be converted into a recreation asset that would stimulate economic growth in the region.

Entrance sign to the park.

There is a Bison and Elk prairie within the park

This is the remains of one of the iron furnaces that use to operate in this area

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Seth talking to one of the "re-enactors" on the mid-19th century farm

Chickens on one of the front porches of the farm

Tabacco drying in a barn