Cumberland River Ferry [image: Picture] Kentucky's only 24/7 state-owned and operated ferry connects two segments of KY-214, which leads to the scenic Turkey Neck Bend section of southeastern Monroe County. For boating and fishing, a concrete ramp has been installed on the down river side of the ferry. Fishing on the Cumberland can't be beat, sauger, stripe, big-mouth, rainbow trout . . . just to name a few. The Cumberland River is a wild river above the headwaters of Lake Cumberland. One of the largest waterfalls in the eastern United States, *Cumberland Falls* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Falls>, 68 feet high, is on this river. Most of the river below Lake Cumberland's *Wolf Creek Dam* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Creek_Dam> is navigable because of several *locks* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_lock> and *dams* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam>. A 90-mile section of its *Big South Fork* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_South_Fork_of_the_Cumberland_River> is protected by the *National Park Service* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_Service> as *Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_South_Fork_National_River_and_Recreation_Area> . The Cumberland River is an important waterway in the *Southern United States* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States>. It is 688 miles (1,107 km) long. It starts in *Harlan County* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County,_Kentucky> in eastern *Kentucky* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky> on the *Cumberland Plateau* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Plateau>, flows through southeastern Kentucky and crosses into northern *Tennessee* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee>, and then curves back up into western Kentucky before draining into the *Ohio River* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River> at *Smithland, Kentucky* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithland,_Kentucky>. -- Jeannie God Bless God Speed kymonroe@rootsweb.com ancestraltrackers.org