CAVE RUN BICYCLE & OUTDOOR CENTER

Cave Run Bicycle and Outdoor Center * 995 HWY 801 South, Morehead, KY  40351

606-784-1818

Area Routes,Trails, and Streams

The shop has available guide books and maps of the area.

Updated July 23, 2010.

Link to Corp. of Engineer Licking River release information. 

The Cave Run Lake Area offers hundrends of miles of world class mountain biking and endless flatwater paddle opportunities.  In addition, there are miles of hiker only trails and great wildlife veiwing at the Beaver Creek Wetland Complex and Minor E. Clark Fish Hatchery. Cave Run Bicycle and Outdoor Shop has several maps of the local trails for sell.  Below is some more information about the area and other online resources.

ROAD BIKING
The road biking in the area offers incredible views of the beautiful Appalachian foothills and the most diverse deciduous forests in the world.  The shop has maps and route descriptions available for rides varying in length from 7 miles to 100 plus miles.  A local rider was nice enough to post some of the local rides at http://bicycling.allsportgps.com/Data/MapSearch.aspx.  

I highly recommend purchasing Random Rides in East-Central Kentucky, by Jerrell Goodpaster. We have this book for sale in the shop.

TRAIL RIDING

Take your pick for trail riding. The Daniel Boone National Forest offers 100s of miles of trails and gravel roads. The area has incredible single track as well as wider, less technical trails. Maps of the area are avaliable at the shop. Call to order a map.

Other sources of information on local riding is Single Track (http://www.singletrack.net), and Kentucky Point Series (http://www.kypointseries.googlepages.com).

HIKING/TRAIL RUNNING
The area is filled with excellent hiking.  Although most of the trails are multi-user trails you have several shorter natural and senic trails that are hiker only. Two links of interest for input on the area check out Sheltowee Trace and KentuckyTrails.org.

PADDLING
Cave Run Lake, the Licking River, and the local streams offer miles and miles of flatwater paddling.  The lake provides all year paddling.  There is plenty of room of the lake and lots pf places to get away. The backwater areas make excellent paddling areas as well as placed to enjoy the natural beauty of the area. The land along the Licking River south of Cave Run Lake dam is all privately owned (atleast until you get to Blue Licks State Park -- about 120 miles downstream). We have lots below Cave Run Lake that can be used by our customers.  What makes you a customer -- you bought a boat from us.

Cave Run paddling maps and directions.  These maps are not for sell -- so we advise printing them in advance. We recommend all of the paddling routes.  But if you insist on a specific recommendation here you go.  For a short half day of paddling, I recommend the Yellow Route (Poppin Rock to Caney).  If you have more time try the Aqua Route (Bangor to Claylick). The shuttle for this trip is less than 10 minutes.

Feel free to be creative and make your own routes or to use any combinations of the routes we suggested to customize your experience. The maps were created to help you plan your trip and to provide some guidiance, not to limit your experience. In the off season you can pretty much paddle anywhere you want on the lake with out many power boats. The only reason the main part of the lake is not mapped out is because of motor boat traffic Memorial thru Labor day, after that or even during the weekends the main lake is worthy of a paddling trip. Use your judgement.

To contact some of the area paddlers you can go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/caverunkayakclub.  The Licking River is home to many fish and other species (The Nature Conservancy).

TOURISM AND LODGING
For more information on the Morehead Area contact The Morehead Tourism (http://www.moreheadtourism.com). 

Comfort Inn and Suites -- (606)780-7378.

CAMPING
http://www.camprrm.com/Kentucky%20Campgrounds.htm

Near by (HWY 801) places to stay and eat