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State Parks
Kentuckians are justifiably proud of their state park system, widely considered to be the nations best. The Commonwealth offers 17 state resort parks - more than any other state - and 24 state recreational parks. Within this system, visitors can hike, bike, camp, golf, fish, boat, swim, picnic, and bask in the warm glow of our famed Kentucky hospitality.
In the resort park category, visitors can explore the longest cave system in the world, witness a rare moonbow (so rare there are only two in the world), marvel at the largest collection of sandstone arches east of the Mississippi, and watch an outdoor musical honoring a brave pioneer woman, while staying at rustic lodges with all the amenities of home or setting up camp amidst some of the state's most beautiful scenery.
The recreational parks offer a chance to go back in time to the days of Kentucky's earliest settlement or to the Civil War, or even back to the Pleistocene Era when a great sheet of ice covered the commonwealth and mastodons and wooly mammoths roamed freely.
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