We finally made our way out of Tennessee. We're now in a town just outside of The Land Between the Lakes Nat'l Rec Area. We found it using our normal mapping skills and talents - we saw a big green spot on the map and said, "Hey, what's that place?" And here we are.
This National Recreation Area is managed by the USFS, so biking, hunting, ATVs and the such are permitted here. There are a lot of trails, shoreline, state parks, history, wildlife and birds in this 170,000 acre peninsula. The land sits between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake and spans over the Kentucky and Tennessee border.
Our first thoughts as we crossed into the NRA was pure fear. The two old bridges that cross the lakes via Hwy 68 are old and extremely narrow. They are rebuilding the roads so you have to do battle with large dump trucks on these bridges. There are only inches between the passenger side mirror and the steel bridge arches and inches between the driver side mirror and the passing dump trucks. Not fun. Collisions happen, and not surprisingly.
We got here on Saturday and so far have enjoyed some of the area.
Saturday evening we drove through the Elk and Bison Prairie. Due to habitat destruction back in the mid 1850's the elk and bison left. We never thought of elk or bison being East. But they are restoring a section of the LBL to it's prior prairie state and have about 30 elk and 50 bison.
It was like entering a Jurassic Park compound:
The males were awfully frisky. Is it mating season?
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