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Little Shepherd Trail Kentucky


HeavyDuty

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Hello Everyone Been a while since I posted

I'm planning a weekend ride to Little Shepherd Trail this summer. Has anyone ridden It and are there any good sightseeing places I should be stopping at in the area hotels food any information would be greatly appreciated 

 

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/kentucky/windiest-road-kentucky/

 

https://youtu.be/hMbKoyWxkOw

 

 thanks Rick

 

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All the KY. State park lodges are nice and priced reasonable. They have food and drinks avail.

Harlan, KY.       #1.    https://www.thelittleinnofharlan.net

Restaurant walking distance from the Inn-  The Portal, 101 N Main St, Harlan, KY 4083

#2  Choice:   Quality Inn  2608 South Highway 421, Harlan, KY 40831

Nasty: Mount Aire Motel, Dirty, small ass rooms.

 

Places:

Kingdom Come State Park in 502 Park Rd, Cumberland, KY 40823

Black Mountain Kentucky 40843

Breaks Interstate Park  627 Commission Cir, Breaks, VA 24607

 

https://youtu.be/M0ADXDaKdWs

 

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Shepard trail starts after leaving Harlan at 2.24 stops at shell gap (turns to dirt) south on 2010--522 to Cumberland then down 160s to Black Mountain, Highest point in KY.

23 to pound then 197 to the Breaks state park. then to Pikeville, KY. - 119-49 to Historical Matwan (Hatfield/McCoy)

all great roads.

 

This is the video I wanted to post.

https://youtu.be/j66aXtHaSVM

 

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1 hour ago, blue72beetle said:

@Danimal and I did that awhile back. Didn't know what it was when we rode it. A little ribbon of asphalt through the woods. Couldn't believe it was two-way.

I like the dirt section much more that the asphalt strip.

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10 hours ago, B-Mac said:

I like the dirt section much more that the asphalt strip.

I led a group from Cinti to Waynesville a few years ago and we rode the western section from 421 east to 2010, which is supposed to be the "paved" section.  From the comments I got from the big bike riders on the trip, you'da thunk it WAS gravel....

It is a nice wander in the woods, but I was a bit disappointed in the section we rode, as there weren't the big vistas I was anticipating.  Too much vegetation.

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On ‎4‎/‎26‎/‎2019 at 7:15 PM, B-Mac said:

Shepard trail starts after leaving Harlan at 2.24 stops at shell gap (turns to dirt) south on 2010--522 to Cumberland then down 160s to Black Mountain, Highest point in KY.

23 to pound then 197 to the Breaks state park. then to Pikeville, KY. - 119-49 to Historical Matwan (Hatfield/McCoy)

all great roads.

 

This is the video I wanted to post.

https://youtu.be/j66aXtHaSVM

 

Next time you are in that area instead of taking 197 between Pound and the Breaks Interstate Park find your way to 611 on the Virginia side of the state line. It runs mostly parallel to 197. There is an observation tower up a dirt/gravel road about five miles off of 611 called the Birch Knob Observation Tower. I've hiked between the tower and Breaks park several times. I'm in that area along 611 a couple times a year visiting family about two miles from that tower.

 

 

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Thanks for the info.

I have passed (Birch Knob Dr,) Many times on the (KAT) route that passes that tower turn off. I will check it out next time, this spring.

When I am ADV'ing without the wife  I take 630(South Mountain road off 23br just north  of Pound to White Oak Creek road just after you cross Bearpen Creek this will turn into Osbornes gap and make a left on Brush Gap, then left on S of the mountain rd. and go right by your turn off for the tower. then this turns into Blowing Rock road, then Bartlick rd to SR80 and into Elkhorn.

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Where 611 quits being called South of the Mountain road and becomes Blowing Rock Road at 619 there is a little sign in front of an old garage that says "Blowing Rock Community". Every house you can see from there and the next three past 619 is family to me. Love that area and plan to spend more time there every year instead of the couple times a year I get there. I am familiar with the Pine Mountain Trail from the Tower to Elk Horn City well enough to be a guide.

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