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Palisades Overlook, also known as the Kentucky River Overlook, is located on the Overlook White Trail where Chandler Creek meets the Kentucky River. Though the viewpoint is small and can get crowded, arriving early ensures you can enjoy the scenic views into the gorge without a wait. The overlook offers a beautiful perspective of the river, gorge, and woods.

Harrods Creek is very scenic and popular with flatwater paddlers. It's most forested area with a few residential areas and marinas popping up.

Gigantic cave. A number of historical traces, from graffiti to saltpetre mining in the cave, but few stalactites. If you want to see stalactites, you should rather visit the Carlsbad Caverns.

The Historic Entrance of Mammoth Caves has been open to the surface for thousands of years, and there is evidence of prehistoric people using this opening for shelter and to gather resources. The area is free to the public, and extends roughly 300 feet into the cave. You will need to descend around 65 stairs in order to access the cave. The area can be very popular in the summer, so there may be a wait in order to enter the cave.

Said to be named for its resemblance to a courthouse, this feature stands alone at the north end of Auxier Ridge. Reached as part of several possible loops, the stunning Courthouse Rock makes for an enticing mid-hike destination.

Compared to other geological formations in the area, Haystack Rock's domed shape seems conspicuously different—topped by its disc-shaped apex and circumscribed by the lines that suggest its sedimentary layers.

All over the Mammoth Caves area, natural groundwater makes its way to the surface and flows to the Green River. At River Styx Spring, the groundwater is a green color as a result of being forced through layers of limestone in its journey to the surface.

Grays Arch is a visually-striking, towering sandstone arch that pays off the effort made to reach it. For safety, the Forest Service recommends using only the eastern portion of the side trail to the arch before continuing on your loop (use the eastern section of #205 Grays Arch Trail as an out-and-back spur rather than as a bypass to connect to #221 Rough Trail on either side of the arch). As always in this area, sturdy footwear that offers good grip in wet conditions is a must!