Wilderness Road Heritage Highway
National Scenic Byway 97 mi in Kentucky.
About the Wilderness Road Heritage Highway
The Wilderness Road Heritage Highway is an important historic route and was crucial in the West's settlement and during the Civil War. Today places like Cumberland Gap National Historic Park preserve that history. The route also leads to Renfro Valley, the famous country music venue, as well as Berea, Kentucky's crafts capitol.
Federal Highway Administration, America's Byways's own description, in its words. Byway page on America's Byways.
Designations: National Scenic Byway, Kentucky Heritage Highway.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 0 · 2.4 mi offWilderness Road Campground · National Park Service · 154 sites · reservable
- Mile 51 · on the roadLevi Jackson Wilderness Road Park Campground · City, county or regional park · 146 sites
- Mile 83 · 0.7 mi offLake Linville Campground · City, county or regional park · reservable
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.