Mere words can never adequately describe the many points of natural beauty in Kentucky. The best of photographs, while better than prose, falls far short of doing justice to the inimitable sculpturing of wind and wave and frost. Nothing-even the inspired hand of genius spotting in the rainbow colors of the landscape approaches the realistic.

Supported by several state and federal agencies, the Pine Mountain Trail project is turning a 120-mile stretch of mountaintop wilderness into a non-motorized, multi-use public trail that eventually will connect several state and federal parks.

The first Kentucky State Park, created in 1924, has its lodge and trails embellished by rockwork crafted by stonemasons of the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s.