The park is also the home of 44-foot (13 m) Eagle Falls. The section of the Cumberland River that includes the falls was designated a Kentucky Wild River by the ...

The site of the falls was occupied in pre-modern times by a variety of indigenous peoples, and more recently has passed through multiple private owners until ... History · Moonbow · Statistics · In popular culture

early history of the Falls than it is now, because shales are more susceptible to erosive work than sandstone, the Falls was higher, and much more water ...

Dedicated Sept. 26, 1983, Cumberland Falls State Park Nature Preserve is located in McCreary and Whitley counties. The dedicated nature preserve encompasses ...

The first official record of the falls ownership occurred in 1800 when the Commonwealth of Kentucky granted Matthew Walton and Adam Shepard Cumberland Falls and ...

In 1850, Jeremiah Cleveland purchased land around Cumberland Falls; his descendants operated a lumber mill there. By early 1900s tourism grew; hotels were built ...

Home to the renowned Cumberland Falls, often revered as the “Niagara of the South,” this 68-foot tall, 125-foot wide waterfall cascades over a boulder-rich ...

13 нояб. 2021 г. · It was opened as Kentucky's third state park in 1931. We continue along the viewing trail . . . . . . secure in the expectation that if those ...

Scenic waterfalls in Kentucky are as majestic as it gets, and the grandest of them, Cumberland Falls, earns its moniker of “Niagara of the South.”