RATtreks

Cumberland Falls, Fried Chicken, and Dinosaurs

Happy Thanksgiving !  ~ This year I took a road trip to spend turkey day with some family / friends in the Cincinnati area. There is nothing like being with the ones you love and seeing friends you have not seen in a long time. There is also nothing like having the opportunity to go see some nice sites and waterfalls along the way. On the way home we took a side trip over to Cumberland Falls State Park to see Cumberland Falls located in the Daniel Boone National Forest just outside of Corbin, Kentucky.

Cumberland Falls

These falls are 125 feet across and 68 feet high and is sometimes called the ‘Niagra of the South’ , Little Niagra’, or Moonbow Falls’. Famous for its ‘moonbow‘ caused by the mist rising from the largest waterfall in Kentucky, creates a unique natural phenomenon that is not visible anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere on a predictable schedule during a time period around the Full Moon. The Falls are situated in such an odd way facing north and flowing north, as to reflect the light of the Moon to make a rainbow like arch, an optical phenomenon called a “moonbow“. The Moonbow can be seen here on clear, strongly moonlit nights. This waterfall is one of a few locations in the world where you can find a moonbow or as other’s have called it, night rainbow, a moon rainbow or lunar rainbow.

Cumberland Falls

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