Weekend Getaway Roadtrip: Whitesburg, Kentucky

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• Stay at one of the hotels in Whitesburg
• Visit Appalshop (see below)
• Attend one of the festivals in Whitesburg or Hazard (see below)
• See the overlook at the top of Pine Mountain (US-119)
• Make a daytrip to the Breaks Interstate Park, hike some of the many trails, raft on the river, see overlooks (see Foot of Pine Mountain route)
• Visit Pine Mountain Settlement School (see Foot of Pine Mountain route)
• Visit Hazard (see London-Whitesburg loop)
• Hike or drive on the Little Shepherd Trail
• Visit Bad Branch Falls (Wikipedia entry)
• Drive the Black Dragon Loop, visit the coal-mining museums in Lynch and Benham, visit Big Stone Gap

• Whitesburg, Kentucky (Wikipedia)
• Appalshop (official site)
• Appalshop (Wikipedia)
• The Mountain Eagle (official website)
• The Mountain Eagle (Wikipedia)
• Seedtime on the Cumberland festival (official website)
• Mountain Heritage Festival (official website)
• Harry Caudill (Wikipedia)
• Tom Gish (Wikipedia)
• Gary Powers (Wikipedia)