The Blue Water Trails series of articles details paddling trips on streams and rivers across Kentucky. The overarching goal of the series is providing thorough information for paddlers to enjoy floating Kentucky streams without worry. All access areas profiled in the Blue Water Trails are open to public use. A printable map accompanies each article showing the location of access points and the distances of each float. The map also specifies important information paddlers need such as the location of low-head dams and where power lines cross the stream. Every Blue Water Trails article describes each trip, relates the available sport fish species and their haunts as well as how to catch them. A little historical perspective is included as well.
The series now details over 30 floats and continues this summer.
To start on your blue water adventure, just select one of the links below.
- Barren River Below the Dam
- Big South Fork
- Buck Creek
- Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge
- Cumberland River below the Falls
- Cumberland River Tailwater
- Elkhorn Creek
- Floyd's Fork North Beckley to Cane Run
- Floyd's Fork Cane Run to Cliffside
- Gasper River
- Green River above the Lake
- Green River - Hart County
- Green River, Mammoth Cave National Park - Dennison Ferry to Green River Ferry
- Green River, Mammoth Cave National Park - Green River Ferry to Brownsville
- Kentucky River, Pool 3
- Kentucky River, Pool 4
- Kentucky River, Pool 6
- Kentucky River, Pool 7
- Kentucky River, Pool 8
- Kentucky River, Pool 9
- Kentucky River, Pool 10
- Levisa Fork
- Licking River
- Little South Fork of Cumberland River
- North Fork Cumberland River
- Red River
- Rockcastle River
- Russell Fork
- Slate Creek
- South Fork Licking River
- Trammel Fork, Middle Fork and Main Stem of Drakes Creek
- Tygarts Creek
- Upper Green River
- West Fork of Drakes Creek