Red River (Kentucky River tributary)

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Wild and Scenic Red River in Wolfe County
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Autumn river landscape on the lower Red River

The Red River is a Script error: No such module "convert".[1] tributary of the Kentucky River in east-central Kentucky in the United States. Via the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.

It rises in the mountainous region of the Cumberland Plateau, in eastern Wolfe County, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". east of Campton. It flows generally west, through Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest, then past Stanton and Clay City. It joins the Kentucky approximately Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Winchester.

In 1993, a Script error: No such module "convert". stretch of the river in the Red River Gorge was designated by the federal government as a National Wild and Scenic River.

The book The Unforeseen Wilderness by Wendell Berry was written to deter the Army Corps of Engineers from damming the Red River Gorge in 1971.

Recreation

The largest golden redhorse ever taken in Kentucky (4 lbs., 5 oz.) was taken in the Red River.[2]

See also

References

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 13, 2011
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