Short Creek | Kentucky Life | KET

Kentucky Life explores the mystery around the naming of Pulaski County's Short Creek.
Short Creek is a small stream that exits one small cave and just a few yards away enters another small cave. Located near the community of Stab off Kentucky Highway 80 in eastern Pulaski County, the stream is actually a karst window-an exposed section of what is actually an underground river, according to the Kentucky Geological Survey.
Short Creek has been a favorite picnic site in the area for years. The water, since it comes from an underground cave system, is delightfully cold-in the 50s-in hot summers. Short Creek also attracts the interest of geologists from around the world who study the county's karst landscape, where underground erosion from rainwater dissolves the limestone rocks, leaving openings like the caves where Short Creek begins and ends.
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[@mdenis46]

This mini-park is one of the most beautiful places we've encountered anywhere in Kentucky.

[@janemayer5321]

The Alcorn family and Billy Joe Williams bought a 29 acre flat parcel on the bank on the Cumberland where they had come to fish and enjoy outdoor life... much hunting in the 50s and later. They used to spend the night in a cave that was higher than this but looked much like it along the path further down Sloans Valley road at the slough. It was always warmer than the farm land and had a water source that emptied in the slough.

[@natashahewitt9922]

Hey, this down the rd from me... only about a mile or so, i think!

[@nutrinutbob]

Interesting video, the cave is likely in the same strata that I often encounter here in SE Ohio, just above the coal. I know one cave like place with pond where held water seemingly disappears.

[@okai2001]

Is there good road all the way to short creek? Could a person in a wheelchair park and get out to view it?

[@timarnzen4900]

Doug B good road to waters edge almost. Very nice place

[@jamesbuchanan8577]

is this in hopkinsville... when I was an army brat, my friends and I hung out and explored a cave just like this.. we used to live at Christopher's trailer park and we would walk around a corn field to get to it...

[@summermosley4352]

No this is in Somerset ky jus bout 4 or 5 miles from shopville elementary. I used to come here an swim an I got baptised here at age 7 an I live 3 miles away from short creek.

[@tiffytoo]

Can you tell me how to get to it. I know where shopville school is. Is it in the stab community?

[@kinsleyphelps6938]

Nope Somerset

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@@tiffytoo 37.150353, -84.431081

[@barnabuscollins5038]

No it's located right off the Hal Roger's parkway going towards Somerset and coming back towards London. Their isn't much advertising it last time I was in that area. That cave is awesome to sit in in the summer since it's so cool.

[@kendracarver3194]

Not safe to swim in ? 😢

[@garyanddoris6022]

What about hunting agate, gemstones 💎 or even prospect for gold ...

[@jazzcatt]

Absolutely not. This is on private property and the owners can close it off to the public at any time. Also Kentucky is not a gold state and you don't find a heck of a lot of gemstones around limestone.

[@garyanddoris6022]

@@jazzcatt you be surprised what you find here in ky.....

[@garyanddoris6022]

@@jazzcatt one more thing , I didn't mean no disrespect, but a hundred feet of a creek wouldn't be that special regardless who owns , we all own land its just some people think its made of holy water ......

[@jazzcatt]

@@garyanddoris6022 Because this place is unique this 'hundred feet of creek' IS special. I feel that it's a matter of respect for someone else private property. If a person goes to visit this place they should be sticking to the land respect rules that say, Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time. I'm sure that you've read several of the comments that say something akin to, "If I owned it I would keep it to myself and not let anyone in." And, if they owned it they would have the right to do just that. I own some acreage of land for the first time in my life. People are welcome to visit but they are NOT welcome to hunt, gather, cut trees, use my spring water, except for survival purposes, or dig for rocks and minerals without my explicit permission. Personally, I would show the same respect anywhere I went. My land is my holy grail and I love it as it is.

[@garyanddoris6022]

@@jazzcatt i have many places myself to hunt and prospect i only ask the question, but I meant to say it like this has anyone ever found any unique gems or agates , but believe me I don't need that creek , sorry if I offend you , but I would never compare what God has made to a your holy grail, when you idolize something your putting it above God , but thats my Bible, there are millions of places in the In the United States to hunt for Gems ,agates, gold and silver , mainly I was just thinking since it came between two rocks there might have been some special things , but believe me im not asking at all to hunt any such thing in that holy grail as you call it ....

[@garyanddoris6022]

Taking care of it would be my upmost responsibility , when I mean prospecting just a gold pan very small ordeal, ???