This Birch Knob Trail runs from Elkhorn City to Pound Gap in Pike and Letcher County. Raven’s Nest Staircase Caves Tucker Gap Osborne Gap Part of the old County Road that crossed into Virginia. (above) Oxen shoes Grassy Gap Blowing Rock Gap The Ridgeline just above Poll Point, looking toward

TALES OF LOST TREASURE have charmed people through the ages, from Oak Island to the Superstition Mountains.  The valleys of the upper Big Sandy and North Fork of the Kentucky River are no exception.  There is one story of hidden Appalachian riches that has survived for over 250 years.  The

The topog­raphy of the Big Sandy country of eastern Ken­tucky and west/southwest Virginia has long been recognized as one of the most uncon­ventional regions east of the Mississippi River.  In reaching that state of geographic development, the watershed of the Big Sandy River has been undergoing geologic change for hundreds