Trip to Red River Gorge

6-2-2012

Figure 1.  One-way tunnel view from the back seat

Today I went to the Red River Gorge with my roommate Josh, Harrison, Casey, and Pablo. We had to drive through an awesome one way tunnel to get into the park (Figure 1). After exiting the tunnel we realized that the GPS was no longer functional, so we stopped at Red River Gorgeous for directions. Instead of driving through the tunnel, we needed to drive on top of the tunnel. The drive from Tunnel Road to Tunnel Ridge Road took about 20 minutes. Finally we reached our destination and had a wonderful hike to Courthouse Rock.

Figure 2. The bat cave

Figure 3. Climbing Courthouse Rock

At Courthouse Rock, we did some off-trail exploring and found a nice cave with a few bats (Figure 2). I tried climbing the rock (Figure 3). We also found a lot of blueberries which we enjoyed munching on. The red-river gorge was a pleasant experience and I look forward to exploring more of the park in the future.