Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area
National Recreation Area · Golden Pond, Kentucky
A forty-mile peninsula of forest held between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, two enormous impoundments of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, running from western Kentucky down into Tennessee. Around 170,000 acres are managed by the Forest Service as a recreation area rather than a national forest, with no towns inside it — the communities that were there were bought out and removed when the lakes were made. It holds a free-roaming bison and elk range, a planetarium, a working 1850s farm and several hundred miles of shoreline.
238 Visitor Center Drive, Golden Pond, Kentucky, 42211, United States
Recreation area open daily, year-round, free, with The Trace open at all hours. Golden Pond Visitor Center generally 9 AM - 5 PM. The Elk and Bison Prairie is open daily dawn to dusk for a per-vehicle fee. The Homeplace, Woodlands Nature Station and the planetarium run seasonal schedules and are separately ticketed — check each before travelling.
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