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Kingdom Come's Overlooks
are the highest and most numerous in the state park system. The
park offers 5 developed overlooks to which visitors can drive, park
and enjoy. Raven Rock's overlook requires a hike to this soaring
sandstone outcrop.
Black Mountain Gazebo Overlook is the first
overlook visitors discover when driving from US 119. This southern
view renders the city of Cumberland, the Poor Fork River valley,
and the girth of Black Mountain.
Creech Overlook, at the park's northeastern
extent of paved roads, unfurls the great Cumberland Plateau beneath
the visitor. Because Pine Mountain is taller than the hills to its
north, a crisp autumn day yields an endless ocean of brillant fall
foliage from Creech Overlook.
After a short walk past stands
of rhododendron and mountain laurel, visitors cand admire the lush
swath of earth beneath them at he park's highest overlook, 12 O'Clock
Overlook.
Raven Rock's secluded sandstone perch gives two magnificent vistas.
Southern Harlan County rests on the horizon, and beneath the visitor's
feet is an incredible landscape of weathered, scultpted rock.
View from Raven
Rock
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