- Source: Red River (Kentucky River tributary)
The Red river" target="_blank">River is a 97.2-mile-long (156.4 km) tributary of the Kentucky river" target="_blank">River in east-central Kentucky in the United States. Via the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, it is part of the Mississippi river" target="_blank">River watershed.
It rises in the mountainous region of the Cumberland Plateau, in eastern Wolfe County, approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of Campton. It flows generally west, through Red river" target="_blank">River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest, then past Stanton and Clay City. It joins the Kentucky approximately 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Winchester.
In 1993, a 20-mile (32 km) stretch of the river" target="_blank">river in the Red river" target="_blank">River Gorge was designated by the federal government as a National Wild and Scenic river" target="_blank">River.
The book The Unforeseen Wilderness by Wendell Berry was written to deter the Army Corps of Engineers from damming the Red river" target="_blank">River Gorge in 1971.
Recreation
The largest golden redhorse ever taken in Kentucky (4 lbs., 5 oz.) was taken in the Red river" target="_blank">River.
See also
Clifty Wilderness
List of rivers of Kentucky
References
External links
The Red river" target="_blank">River Gorge Today
U.S. Forest Service: Red river" target="_blank">River Gorge
The Red river" target="_blank">River Saga
RRS: Red river" target="_blank">River Gorge Biodiversity
Arches of the Red river" target="_blank">River Gorge
Red river" target="_blank">River Gorge Geologic Area
Wild and Scenic Red river" target="_blank">River
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Red River (Kentucky River tributary)
- Red River (Cumberland River tributary)
- Kentucky River
- Green River (Kentucky)
- List of rivers of Kentucky
- Red River
- Cumberland River
- Ohio River
- South Fork Kentucky River
- Red Bird River
