Haven't yet..I had to take a little time ( again ) ... got a Brown Recluse bite , it was not pretty but it's starting to get better. There's at least one part on 357 that's deeper than 33's can do... I was out there a while ago and got high centered there...

@thesboard09 356 was pretty wet today. So I decided to not tackle 357. 374 has gotten pretty rough but you don't have to deal was much mud.

I hadn't been out this one... but it turned out to be a nice ride...

The last couple months have been one thing after another... still not 100% but I'm definitely going to get back out... I'm sure we'll run into.each other again soon.

It's nice and quiet down there... most of the time. And super dark.

Thanks !

Feels pretty good though..

This was up in Crittenden County looking across the Ohio River... about 2 minutes after this I was just about blown away by the wind whippin across that bean field and it rained so hard ya couldn't see the road for about 2 minutes.... enjoyed it.

Lady is one of the most beautiful places in LBL... some of my family comes from up by Kuttawa Landing. PS Dad and Grandma are doing a great job ... there are a few cemeteries out there that are really hard to get to

There's a few nice spots there... if you're a campground kinda person. I'm gonna stick with the more " remote " stuff LOL

That was on 312 near Racetrack Hollow... that particular spot has a lot of trees down pretty frequently for.some reason ?

I don't know if it's all the rain this year or the sheer number of strong storms we've had... but there are definitely more trees just falling over than usual.... seems that way anyway... and it's not in any one place more than another , ya never know when your road is just gonna end... Nobody believes me cuz I didn't habe a camera running at the time ... but I've driven out a road and then on the way back , not ten minutes later , there's a tree across the road ! And it wasn't storming or particularly windy at the time.. just really wet out. If I hadn't had a chainsaw and a winch I'd probably still be walking out ! LOL

Bring on the cool.

It's about halfway on 374.. it's not an easy place to get to.

@@thesboard09 Thanks. Is it on the west or east side 374? Around Jimerson Cemetery?

It's within a hundred yards of Jimmerson. Kind of north-west ish from the cemetery ... if you're coming in from the west , there's a sharp turn , then a " creek " before you get to the cemetery... it's right at that sharp turn.

I got out for a while day before yesterday.... too hot to sit still.for veey long...

The good ole days... have had one or two of those myself.... I think it was a Valiant though... not a deuce and a quarter.

Amen brother ! I have been thinkin the same thing

Heard " they're " writing $18] tickets for going past the bank at the end... There's a sign on the road that says " road ends in 3 miles "... but the tree on the beach ( full of broken parts and stickers ) is only 2.7 miles from the sign ? I guess I get it... but maybe change the sign ?

@@thesboard09is that just exclusive to Persimmon??. I keep seeing people comment this but cannot find anything on LBL’s gov website or anywhere stating this. Everything ive seen encourages camping on the beaches saying what great spots they are.

I think it's the same place... the person who told me about it , called it cedar bluff.. but I've heard it called Rushing Creek too ??

A rain ride might be all ya can get this week.... the ole weatherman said tornados and lots of rain were possible ?... might get all the little creeks and drainages full ... it's really pretty when they're running...

I don't know any of them personally , but I have run across a couple from time to time. I'm not consistent enough for a group LOL.. I never know when I'm going to be able to go until the moment I head out... makes it tough to plan anything ( and makes me seem antisocial ) There's a facebook page called Paducah Jeep club that has some posts about it sometimes .. there's another page 'tween the rivers ... I'm sure there are local groups and I know there are several people that are out there a lot ( Dusty Harrel on Facebook does some really cool photography out there) .. Going alone may not be the best idea , depending on what you're up to , but I'm usually solo .. circumstances are what they are ... but keep in mind that there's sketchy cell service , lots of muddy roads and deep mudholes... and worst of all , trees fall across the roads a lot ! More than it seems they should , but if you head out a one way in - one out road and a tree happens to fall across the road .... even if you carry a chainsaw it can be pretty dangerous to clear a path...( yes , I know small trees are pretty easy , but big , big trees can be unpredictable ) ... I doubt any of that was helpful , but maybe someone knows more ?

10 hours .... yeah , that's a good drive... I'm about an hour away .. and that's far enough that I don't go every day.... Where's your " everyday place "? .. I know.some folks in Eastern Kentucky and East Tennessee that are about 6 hours from here .. hopefully , I'll be able to get out there one of these days... go ride in somebody else's " everyday spot "...

@@thesboard09 we are northeast of Pittsburgh PA about 30 miles

It's located in Land Between the Lakes in Western Kentucky on US forest service road 145

We were there monday night and it was startin to get a little crowded.. we saw at least 15 cars LOL... We're gonna spend the next few days at home... got a string of chicken murders to solve.

@@thesboard09 Good luck at the crime scene. Had a good ride today 209,210 an went by Boswells landing...only 4 camp sites taken,no boats. Have a good one Man. Later. ZZ.

214 has been shut down in the middle for quite a while... right about Cherry Cemetery or so... not sure what's going on with that. Winter is my time too... I don't dig heat , sweat or bugs... or lots of people for that matter... winter clears out a bit except for deer season ! It's packed during gun season... I wouldn't want to be in there while that's going on anyway.... I wish I knew a good Toyota guy .. there's gotta be one little thing somewhere throwing everything else off ?....

Thanks....I bet it was really nice at one time.. I never got to see it when it was open . The day we did the video I had been trying to pass 2 kidney stones . I had a 5mm and a 6mm stuck and thought maybe a good walk would break them loose ... It didn't work , don't ever do that ! Then had ankle surgery a month later to replace two screws that I apparently bent somehow ? I was hurting pretty bad so we weren't able to do it justice...there was a lot we never got to see. I would have liked to have made it down to the spring and to the boat ramp on Rushing Bay , but it just wasn't in the cards that day. I was told there had been a baseball field and several buildings built right before it closed as well.... but there was no sign of a ball field and very little left of any buildings... plenty of trash piled in the parking lot though....

I was thinking this is rushing creek but where did the name cedar bluff campground come from? Also closing in the 80's? I'm confused because I camped at rushing creek into the 2010's.

I get why they called it skunk hollow. We took a day walk through there in the off season and everywhere we turned there were skunks and each one started following us. Before long there were 15 + fluffy skunks with different patterns even solid white ones started chasing us. We were panicking when the groundsman opened his camper door and shouted they were not trying to get us. They are tame and want feeding. Upon seeing him they left us and scurried his direction 😂.

I was told about it by someone who worked at LBL in the 80's.. haven't found much info on it anywhere else...

Might be thinking of another campground ? ... The bluff at the end is Cedar Bluff...

That's crazy...

Thanks ! I grew up in Cave in Rock . The old jail is pretty cool. There's a ton of history there.. The Cave , Pirates , movies and thousands of years of native americans. If you're into history at all , it'll keep.you busy for the next several years ...

This is on 204 , it's only a quarter mile or so from the Trace on gravel. The road is jusr to the north of the Great Western Furnace.

Man I need me.some of that sanaty... glad you're back on wheels . The older I get , the less I like tearin things up.... and how much it costs to fix 'em...

I've been layin low myself... I'm not a mudder... hate mud... too easy to tear things up . I , for one , hope ypu stick around a while longer.

@@thesboard09 Sorry fer the slow reply. I'm takein' my truck back to the shop fer the third time fer the same thing. $1800 in the front end it drives too heavy like log truck. Can't go over 60 ,tries to shake ya' off the road. Didn't do this before. They goin' to let me in the shop today. Guess I'll have to do it in the driveway anyhow. Hope to see Ya' in the woods soon. ZZ

3x and still ain't figured it out ?... Sounds familiar... but frontend problems are hard to track down sometimez.....bushings and ball joints and then a bent rod somewhere .... had on old truck once that never drove right... traded it off and the guy found a bent drag link or somethin .. said he replaced it and it drove like new from then on ... Hope you find somethin under there .

I could probably get a 76 Skylark down it... but it ain't coming back out LOL... it's fine up to one particular hill, basically a gravel road up to that... then it ain't.

It can get pretty crazy when it's storming... only a few places to find shelter.... and you never know when a tree is going to block your escape route.

Thank you !

I think I saw about 5 before that one that day... went again yesterday and only saw one huge black snake.... I've seen a few rattle snakes over the years , but mostly copperheads and a few Cotton mouth's swimmimg from time to time.

Racetrack Hollow... end of 131

@@thesboard09 10-4 i may try and take my kiddos their to play in the water its getting hot out lol

It's a good one .... you can take 131 all the way in or take 129 to 312 and get there from the other side of the creek . 312 , is actually a good road compared to 131... 131 is pretty rough after all this rain . If you go 312 , 131 is easy to miss , it doesn't look like much from that side... and if you come in off of 129 ... right past the 131 intersection you'll run into the same creek again, that you have to drive through..so if you drive through a creek you went too far LOL... but it's a nice place to cool off as well.... My personal favorite in LBL is on 145 ( but it's " popular ").... it has a couple spots to get in the creek and they're concrete ... and a lot deeper ... one has a rope . There used to be a couple spots on 141 as well....

Sweet thanks!

Actually none of that story is true. Never happened. The whole story was made up tp promote a small time movie . Anyone who's spent any amount of time in LBL can tell you the person who wrote the " Jan Thompson " letters definitely didn't know anything about the place... and even less about Grand Rivers. I've had the oportunity to talk to several people who lived Between the Rivers and none of them ever heard of any of this before the " beast " story .. so no , there weren't stories about it before... One more thing , in the Hopkinsville paper , there was an article . In the article , Lee Vervoort , who wrote the whole thing , admitted to making it up. He said " the people who lived there were jealous because they didn't think of it first ." The whole thing is a made up story , that doesn't make sense if you've been there , to promote a movie that still hasn't happened...

It's gonna be a little wet around here.