Cumberland Falls

Because we are in the process of retirement planning, Susan and I decided to make a quick trip to Cattail after Christmas to measure the property in anticipation of building a year-around home there in four or five years. Our plan is to move from North Manchester into a new home at Cattail that would be large enough to host the English Wellers as well as the American Wellers and the Pfitzers in a grand and comfortable scale. But more on that in another post.

Because both of us had a very lengthy Christmas break, this year, we decided to spend two days driving down to Cattail, stopping along the way the spend a night in the old lodge at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park in Kentucky and to do some serious walking there.

Below are some pictures of the lodge, which is lovely and has good food, as well as a few of the famous falls. This is a lovely and wild area of Kentucky, with lots of great hiking trails throughout the park, many of which provide great views of the stunning bluffs along the Cumberland River. Although the falls, which are the largest in the US south of Niagara and east of the Rockies, are impressive, Susan said they don’t look like much more than a showerhead compared to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, where she visited with her mom this past summer!