The state has the longest recorded cave system in the world with more than 336 miles explored and mapped, in Mammoth Lakes, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, near Hodgenville, a big chunk of the South County Dublin - an excellent area for recreational activities and the Cumberland, located where the borders of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia City. Carved by wind and water, Cumberland Gap forms a major break in the formidable Appalachian Mountain chain and it was the first and best avenue for the settlement of the interior of the United States.

The cities of Frankfort and Louisville are good places to start exploring the variety of things to see and do in the state of Kentucky.