Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission

The Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission is an agency of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

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dedicated to the protection of Kentucky's natural heritage.

Statewide Nature Preserve / Natural Area List:

Axe Lake Swamp SNP
Axe Lake Swamp State Nature Preserve
Axe Lake Swamp State Nature Preserve is a nature reserve located near Barlow, Kentucky in Ballard County in an area known locally as "the Barlow bottoms", a wetland created by periodic flooding along the mouth of the Ohio River. Originally, Axe Lake consisted of of the main lake and about 120...
Bad Branch SNP
Bad Branch Falls State Nature Preserve
Bad Branch Falls State Nature Preserve is a nature preserve in Letcher County, Kentucky. Originally dedicated by the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission on September 26, 1985, the preserve was and included Bad Branch Gorge, a forested gorge with a sixty foot waterfall tumbling over...
Roger W Barbour Bat Cave SNP
Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves
Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves are two nature preserves totaling located within the boundaries of Carter Caves State Resort Park in Carter County, Kentucky. Bat Cave was dedicated into the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission system on Dec 16 1981 for the protection of...
Beargrass Creek SNP
Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve
Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve is a nature preserve in Louisville, Kentucky's Poplar Level neighborhood, in roughly the central portion of the city. It is named for Beargrass Creek, the south fork of which passes along the northern side of the preserve. The preserve is adjacent to...
Bissell Bluff SNA
Blackacre State Nature Preserve
Blanton Forest SNP
Blue Licks State Nature Preserve
Blue Licks Battlefield State Park
Blue Licks Battlefield State Park is a park located near Mount Olivet, Kentucky in Robertson County. The park encompasses , and features a monument commemorating the August 19, 1782 Battle of Blue Licks...
Boone County Cliffs SNP
Bouteloua Barrens SNP
Brigadoon SNP
Brigadoon State Nature Preserve
Brigadoon State Nature Preserve is located in Barren County, Kentucky adjacent to the Barren River Lake.With assistance from The Nature Conservancy, of mostly mature forest was dedicated into the preserve system on March 14, 1985. Another were dedicated on June 12, 2001...
Cascade Caverns SNP
Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves
Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves are two nature preserves totaling located within the boundaries of Carter Caves State Resort Park in Carter County, Kentucky. Bat Cave was dedicated into the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission system on Dec 16 1981 for the protection of...
Chaney Lake SNP
Crooked Creek Barrens SNP
Cumberland Falls SPNP
Cypress Creek SNP
Dinsmore Woods SNP
Eastview Barrens SNP
Flat Rock Glade SNP
Floracliff SNP
Frances Johnson Palk SNP
Goodrum Cave SNP
Hi Lewis Pine Barrens SNP
James E. Bickford SNP
Jesse Stuart SNP
Jim Scudder SNP
John B. Stephenson Memorial Forest SNP
John James Audubon SPNP
Julian Savanna SNP
Kingdom Come SPNP
Logan County Glade SNP
Lower Howard's Creek Heritage Park and SNP
Martin's Fork SNA
Metropolis Lake SNP
Natural Bridge State Park State Nature Preserve
Natural Bridge State Park (Kentucky)
Natural Bridge State Resort Park is a Kentucky state park located in Powell and Wolfe Counties along the Middle Fork of the Red River, adjacent to the Red River Gorge Geologic Area and surrounded by the Daniel Boone National Forest. Its namesake natural bridge is the centerpiece of the park. The...
Newman's Bluff SNA
Obion Creek SNP
Pilot Knob SNP
Pine Mountain SPNP
Quiet Trails SNP
Raymond Athey Barrens SNP
River Cliffs SNP
Short's Goldenrod SNP
Six Mile Island SNP
Six Mile Island State Nature Preserve
Six Mile Island is a nature preserve in Jefferson County, Kentucky located on the Ohio River.-About:The Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission is the project manager over the preserve and was dedicated June 24, 1979. The reserve is an undeveloped riverine island and is known for its extensive...
Springhouse Barrens SNP
Stone Mountain SNA
Terrapin Creek SNP
Thompson Creek Glades SNP
Three Ponds SNP
Tom Dorman SNP
Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve
Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve is located in both Garrard and Jessamine county Kentucky and protects a section of the Kentucky River Palisades. The preserve is owned by the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission, and encompasses of cliffs, bluffs, and bottomland...
Vernon-Douglas SNP
Woodburn Glade SNP

SNP indicates State Nature Preserve
SPNP indicates State Park Nature Preserve
SNA indicates State Natural Area

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