Cloud Splitter - Red River Gorge

Directions to Cloud Splitter:
From Interstate 64 East
Take exit 98 for Bert T. Combs Mountain Pkwy
Take exit 33 SLADE Go left of exit
Turn left on 11,15, Campton Road
Turn right onto Nada Tunnel Road, 77
Veer right onto Tar Ridge Road, 77
Turn right onto Sky Bridge Road, 715
End at Bison Way Trail Head Parking lot Before Brick Bridge that crosses over Gladie Creek.
Back Track 6/10 of a mile west on 715
At this point you will be at these GPS Coordinates:
N 37°50.1.22'
W083°37.254'
Follow the unmarked trail in front of you until you reach Trail 100 (The Sheltowee Trail)
Turn left on Trail 100 and walk until you reach the GPS Coordinates:
N 37°50.187'
W083°37.256'
Turn up and wind up the hill. (Be careful)
*Watch this video above by Matt Nemcic and Andy Kennedy before you go so you don't get lost. Andy got lost twice before finally making his first successful trip to the summit in this video!
(*Quick Note on spelling* - It is spelled differently everywhere you look. If you prefer the name be written as 'Coundsplitter' because you are just extra cool like then click here to watch a different video just for you spelled the way you like it: • Video )

[@dws1234]

Almost 6 years later (2020) and this video is helping me find a new route to Cloud Splitter! Thank you guys again! You never know what a 6 year old youtube video could do.

[@richardsoult5678]

Fantastic guys,been going to the gorge for over thirty years and only made it to cloud Splitter one time and forgot how to get there so thanks again for jarring my memory.It will be top of my list next time thanks to you both.

[@rrunkle]

Used your directions to get there today w my 7 and 5 year old kids. Thanks. The log at the split is now broken and requires a nice chimney climb to get up into the split

[@jesseearles4692]

When I lived in Cincinnati, I used to go the Gorge in the summer/fall. Cloudsplitter was my secret sanctuary. I loved that place. Enjoy it!

[@vicaras1]

Jesse Earles not a secret anymore ! Fucking internet !

[@geoffpeterson1698]

Thank you for this video. It's because of this that my son and I found cloud splitter today and it was everything we hoped for.

[@MrDCentertainment]

watched this just for the music

[@mtnboyjp]

Awesome place!! I live fairly close to the gorge and I have been Looking for this place!! I will definitely find it now!! Thanks for the coords!!

[@chrisnutley5747]

My two sons and I love going to the gorge for backpack training....boy scouts....and we have alot of fun there. Always wondered how to get to Cloud Splitter.....thank you so much for this. We will definitely check this out on our next trek. Be careful out there and have fun!

[@sdhiman33]

WOW! looks dangerous! but you hunks seem to have it under control. Be safe oxoxoxo

[@fujitababe08]

You guys are awesome and loving the Last of the Mohicans music! :) Great video!

[@calebvarney7948]

helped me out alot on friday. camped up there and took a quick little video and some pictures to show the view off that I just posted, check it out. Thanks again for putting this up.

[@TURKEYHUNTERDELUXE]

Awesome video!!!! I need to go here and Revenuers Rock

[@jarednisch6132]

Thank you for posting this

[@Owlpunk]

The Internet is weird. I found this video while I was searching for reviews of Russel Banks' novel *Cloudsplitter* about the famous abolitionist John Brown - it's named after this exact mountain, lol.

[@richcollins513]

Great video, who picked the music tho? Cloud Splitter was my favorite spot to visit. I carved a bowl into the rock on top in 2001, i hope it is still there. I would put my roaches in it and seal them in there with a bottle cap for the next visitor to enjoy.

[@IncredibleDisplay]

reat video!! funny and educational!!

[@edbur19]

YES thanks for adding this we got lost to trying to find this also.. I believe we found the trail just not cloud splitter, we hiked up as if we were going to Indian staircase sorta kinda. My question is instead of parking at bison way is there a place to park where you would enter the unmarked trail head at where you referenced 6/10 of a mile before???

[@edbur19]

edbur19 nevemind lol I now see the reference points!!!

[@stevenanderson2897]

great video, very good directions. we had one heck of a time finding it last summer. Did I recognise a little bit of Indian Staircase near the end of this video ?

[@mtnboyjp]

Would you mind if I referenced this video in my video when I go?? I also want to link to it. Thanks!

[@andrewekennedy]

Sure! Go right ahead and share away!

[@ogdickwagon]

Thanks for the video guys! This was a lot of help, I've gone to the Gorge numerous times and have never gotten directions as specific as these! Great choice in music by the way, definitely makes you want to watch it to the end!