Trail Map Contents
This collection of maps is more than backcountry trail map.
- 1:31,640 scale GPS trail map of the park with 50-foot elevation contours and GPS grids.
two full-color, double-sided sheets at 13.5" x 19.25"
- Unique trail elevation profiles for the park that show popular loop and long-distance hikes.
- Detailed inset maps for trails around Lincoln Memorial University, Wildnerness Road Campground, and Hensley Settlement.
- Kingdom Come Adventure Guide is a map booklet for Benham and Lynch and Kingdom Come Scenic Parkway. These areas are about one hour north of Cumberland Gap on Pine Mountain.
one full-color, eight-page booklet at 8.5" x 11"
Trails of the Park
Navigate the Gap with this custom interactive map
Music of the Gap
Listen to Cumberland Gap Banjoby Rich Kirby, recorded 2003.
(800k .mp3 file)
Listen to Cumberland Gap
by Lee Sexton, recorded 2000.
(1m.mp3 file) for full song visit appalshop.org
Listen to Cumberland Gap
by Morgan Sexton, recorded 1992.
(1m .mp3 file) for full song visit appalshop.org
Cumberland Gap switched hands four times during the Civil War. A old tune called "Cumberland Gap" relates the tale of a soldier stranded at the Gap after the war. He bemoans how the waters can't clean his face and not a dollar could be made. His only way home was to walk.
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A trail map and elevation profiles that would even impress Daniel Boone.
A unique set of maps and trail information for your next high mountain adventure into the first frontier.
Bird's Eye View of Cumberland Gap
Explore Cumberland Gap with an interactive 3D map
First Frontier Audio Driving Tour
Find more stories about the first frontier on SoundCloud:
Part I | Part II
The First Frontier Audio Driving Tour can be downloaded at firstfrontier.org.
Historic readings on mountain life
The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky mountains, by Ellen Churchill Semple, 1910.
Our Southern Highlanders, by Horace Kephart, 1913.
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