Edmonson County High Point Trip Report
Date: May 27, 2002
Author: Ken Oeser
one area 300 feet west of Locust Grove Cemetery
This point is in Mammoth Cave National Park. From the
junction of KY70/KY255 4 miles west of Cave City, go west on KY70 about 0.25 mile and pull into the
Locust Grove Cemetery parking area. Walk across the road and left into the woods to the highest area in
the contour.
two areas 1 mile east of Lincoln School
From Demonbruns Store drive east on KY1827 to the junction with KY1352.
Pull into the parking lot for the market on the east side of the junction. The two contours are on
opposite sides of KY1827 just past the market, so walk down the road and climb the dirt road cuts to the
highest areas of each.
two areas 0.5 mile southwest of Silent Grove Church
From the junction of KY70/KY2325, drive south on
KY2325 about 0.5 mile and turn left onto a paved road, and then right on Tower Road. On my previous visit,
this road was gated next to a house on the left. The people on the right told us that the people on the
left gated the road, and the government man who checks the tower didn't know who had done it without permission,
and they had to take the gate down. Follow this narrow paved road to the top and park near the tower.
We found a witness post behind the tower fence, but couldn't locate the benchmark. Follow a faint
dirt road west about 500 feet to the second area, which is located in woods. We hiked from the nice
people's house up the ridge line the entire way, picking up about 100 tick points round trip, stopping every
few hundred feet to pick off different sized ticks. It would be much easier to drive up and ignore the people
on the left, who don't own any part of the top, but the road is narrow, so it would be tough to meet another
vehicle on the road.
four areas 1 mile southwest of Bee
From the 2 areas east of Lincoln School, drive east on KY1827 about 2 miles
to the road crest and pull into a driveway on the right. There is a sign for selling crafts, but nobody
was home on our visit. The area in the front yard hand-leveled higher both ways than the area in the same
contour across the highway. It also hand-leveled higher than the close area to the east, out in a plowed field
behind a barn. The area southeast of the house hand-levels significantly higher than the front yard both ways,
and is an easy stroll across an unfenced field to the top, near a fence and woods. The fourth area here
is about 1/4 mile north on a wooded hill, so hand-levelling is impossible due to trees. We drove northeast to
the first driveway on the left and gained permission to walk to the highpoint of the hill. They were nice and
told us of a wood road that goes most of the way to the top. At its crest we followed the ridge a couple
hundred feet to the top.