You Can Paddle Through An Abandoned Mine In Kentucky In A Clear Kayak

Perhaps you’ve paddled a kayak on lakes or alongside rivers. However have you ever ever strapped on a headlamp and entered a cave to discover an deserted limestone mine in a clear-bottomed kayak with a neon glow illuminating your subterranean environment?

Within the Crimson River Gorge space close to Slade, Kentucky (about an hour’s drive from Lexington), Stand Up Paddle (SUP) Kentucky leads this bucket list-worthy “Krystal Kayak and SUP Glow” kayak tour.

Multicolored LED lights gentle up the cave and the clear development of the kayak means paddlers can spot rainbow trout darting about within the waters. The fish are identified for following alongside on the tour.

Right here’s a picture the corporate posted to Fb exhibiting the expertise:

Different tour highlights embrace seeing an underground waterfall and recognizing brown bats napping within the nooks and crannies of the cave’s limestone partitions (assuming you’re good with winged nocturnal creatures).

The Crimson River Gorge space geological space as an entire is a playground for lovers of the outside, with greater than 150 sandstone arches inside Daniel Boone Nationwide Forest — the one space west of the Rocky Mountains to have such a arch. Crimson River Gorge encompasses 29,000 acres and can be full of jagged cliffs and cascading waterfalls.

The guided 90-minute kayak tour contains headlamps, and you may select between a single-seat kayak or a tandem one. You too can do it as a stand-up paddle tour for those who desire.  Grownup tickets begin at $75. Group sizes are capped at eight individuals aged 5 and up.

Right here’s one other view of the tour from throughout the former limestone mine:

If caves and bat encounters aren’t fairly your model of journey, although, the Kentucky clothing store has another cool excursions. You can paddleboard as much as Cumberland Falls, and really feel the mist of the 62-foot waterfall there; the well-known gusher is nicknamed the “Niagara of the South.” Or, discover Grayson Grotto, the place you possibly can uncover as much as seven secluded waterfalls throughout a three-hour paddleboarding tour.

What do you suppose? Are you on board with an adventurous cave kayak tour?

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