Five-Star Trails: Louisville and Southern Indiana. Valerie Askren
Overview Map Key
1 Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve: White Oak Nature Trail
4 Falls of the Ohio Levee Trail
5 Goose Creek Loop at Tom Sawyer Park
Kentucky: South of Louisville and West of I-65
11 Jefferson Memorial Forest: Scott’s Gap Trail
12 Jefferson Memorial Forest: Yost Ridge to Mitchell Hill Lake
Kentucky: South of Louisville and East of I-65
14 Bernheim Arboretum: Millennium Trail
16 Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve
18 The Parklands of Floyds Fork: Coppiced Woods
19 Salato Wildlife Education Center
20 Taylorsville Lake State Park: Lakeview Vista Trail
21 Vernon-Douglas State Nature Preserve
Indiana: North of Louisville and West of I-65
22 Donaldson’s Woods Nature Preserve at Spring Mill State Park
26 Mount St. Francis Lake Trail
28 Pioneer Mothers Memorial Forest
30 Rocky Ridge Trail at O’Bannon Woods
Indiana: North of Louisville and East of I-65
35 Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge
Five-Star Trails: Louisville and Southern Indiana
Copyright © 2013 by Valerie Askren
All rights reserved
Published by Menasha Ridge Press
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Printed in the United States of America
First edition, first printing
Editors: Larry Bleiberg and Susan Haynes
Project editor: Ritchey Halphen
Cover design and cartography: Scott McGrew
Text design: Annie Long
Cover and interior photos: Valerie Askren except where noted
Proofreader: Holly Cross
Frontispiece: Whether covered with ice in late winter or gushing with warm spring rains, waterfalls delight the soul. (See Hike 17, Fairmount Falls.)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Askren, Valerie.
Five-star trails: Louisville and southern Indiana: your guide to the area’s most beautiful hikes / Valerie Askren.
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