Day 16 & 17: Camp Breckinridge, KY

Set out from Indy on Monday and camped in The Hoosier National Forrest at Indian-Celina Lakes Recreation Area. Visited my birthplace the following day.

I was born in Camp Breckinridge, but had not been there since my birth. I don’t even know if we lived there or not, and if not how did I come to be born there?

All that remains of the camp is a museum and a Job Corps Center on part of the original camp.

The camp was established during World War II for training troops and housing POWs.

After the war it was used during the Korean war as a training base for the 101st Airborne (Infantry) and other units.

The original establishment of the base for WW I resulted in the displacement of many families and property owners.

With the decommissioning of the camp after Korea the land has been tied up in lawsuits between the displaced families and the government for decades.

Spent two nights at Indiana-Celina Lakes SRA:

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Day 13-15: Cataract Falls and Patoka Lake.

With my nephews: Ty and James

Patoka Lake & Land Between The Lakes
After spending time at Cataract Falls we drove south to Patoka Lake and set up camp for the next two days.
On Saturday we drove to the Land Between The Lakes in Kentucky and visited Kentucky Dam and Barkley Dam (no pictures from Barkley Dam).
In visiting the Land Between The Lakes we crossed the Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.

When we bedded down on our last night there was lightning on the horizon. Later there were flash flood alerts.
Beginning at about 1 am we were engulfed in high winds and near continuous thunder and lightning for about 8 hours.

At one point a 48 mile per hour wind flattened our tent as one wall came completely down on Ty and I.
Once the wind let up the tent returned to its upright position, which was lucky as the tent was only rated to withstand 35 mph winds.

After the storm everything, including us were soaking wet. We loaded up as best we could and set out for home.

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Day 12 The Wilderness Road & Cumberland Gap.

Broke camp and started by driving through the mountain (The Cumberland Gap Tunnel) from Virginia to Tennessee. Then drove up to Pinnacle Overlook. While it is not nearly as high (2440 ft.) as Clingsman Dome or Mount Mitchel it has its own unique spectacular view. Perched above the town of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee you can see the town, the roadway going into the Cumberland Tunnel, and mountain line that divides the mountain between Virginia and Kentucky… an aerial view from one state of three states.

Once I came down from Pinnacle Overlook I preceded on the Wilderness Road north to where Col. Henderson, Col. Luttrell, and Daniel Boone founded Fort Boonseborough, near present day Lexington, Kentucky.

click here fro pictures and history from previous visit to Ft. Boonesborough

click here for more on Thomas Luttrell

click here for more on Col. John Luttrell

click here for more on Col. John Luttrell

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