Kentucky Motorcycle Touring Guide

Country Music Highway

The Country Music Highway is Eastern Kentucky's heritage route. The sites and sounds along the Byway capture all aspects of the region's history, including Native American culture, pioneer settlement, coal mining, country music, crafts, architecture, the Civil War, and natural resources.

Red River Gorge Scenic Byway

One of the nation's special natural areas, Red River Gorge offers stone arches, caves, cliffs, ravines and waterflows. Designated as a National Natural Landmark, a National Wild and Scenic River and a National Geological Area, the landscape of this part of Kentucky offers scenic, natural and recreation experiences.

Wilderness Road Heritage Highway

The Wilderness Road Heritage Highway is an important historic routes, crucial in the West's settlement and during the Civil War. Today places like Cumberland Gap National Historic Park preserve that history. This Byway also leads to Renfro Valley, the famous country music venue, as well as Berea, Kentucky's crafts capitol.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site - Hodgenville, KY
Picture of Park Ranger reading to children at the library  The Site focuses on Lincoln's life in Kentucky. The Birthplace Unit demonstrates his humble beginnings with a symbolic birth cabin enshrined within a neo-classic Memorial Building. The Boyhood Home Unit at Knob Creek Farm was home to Lincoln during his formative years. Events in Kentucky helped mold a young boy into the man who became the nation’s sixteenth President.

Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area - Oneida, KY,TN
Park entrance sign under winter snows.  Encompassing 125,000 acres of the Cumberland Plateau, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area protects the free-flowing Big South Fork of the Cumberland River and its tributaries. The area boasts miles of scenic gorges and sandstone bluffs, is rich with natural and historic features and has been developed to provide visitors with a wide range of outdoor recreational activities.

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park - Middlesboro, KY
Daniel Boone leads pioneer settlers across Cumberland Gap. Painting by David Wright.  At Cumberland Gap, the first great gateway to the west, follow the buffalo, the Native American, the longhunter, the pioneer... all traveled this route through the mountains into the wilderness of Kentucky. Modern day explorers and travelers stand in awe at this great gateway and the many miles of trails and scenic features found in the park.

Mammoth Cave National Park - Mammoth Cave, KY
Shadowy Mammoth Cave  Mammoth Cave National Park preserves the cave system and a part of the Green River valley and hilly country of south central Kentucky. This is the world's longest cave system, with more than 365 miles explored. Early guide Stephen Bishop called the cave a "grand, gloomy and peculiar place," but its vast chambers and complex labyrinths have earned its name: Mammoth.