Dawkins Line Rail Trail

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Dawkins line rail trail. Join us as we take a ride on the Dawkins Line Rail Trail Kentuckys longest rail-trail. Dawkins Line Rail Trail. Parking is available at Jennys Creek Swamp Branch Royalton and Jane Beshear trailheads.

Although only half-finished the trail has already become the states longest rail-trail. Kentuckys longest and best Rails to Trail Bike Trail is the Dawkins Line Rail Trail which runs 18 miles from Royalton KY near Salyersville to Hagerhill KY near Paintsville. The Dawkins Line is Kentuckys longest rail trail to date.

The trail also has another 18 mile extension currently under construction. Currently the Dawkins Line Rail Trail is 18 miles long. Thus the Evanston side is only accessible from Breathitt County.

The Dawkins Line is Kentuckys longest rail trail to date. The Dawkins Rail Line Trail is a free public resource. In eastern Kentucky 18 miles of the planned 36-mile Dawkins Line Rail Trail are open for use.

Friends of the Dawkins Line support the multi use trail for walking cycling hybridmt. While the final 11 miles is now complete Tip Top Tunnel is not open. Bikes and horseback riding over the 36 mile abandoned Dawkins RR corridor in Magoffin Breathitt and Johnson.

Preliminary work has begun to connect Salyersville to the 36-mile-long Dawkins Line Rail-to-TrailThe Dawkins begins just south of Paintsville in Johnson County crosses Magoffin County near Salyersville passing through the official Kentucky Trail Town of Royalton and ends at Evanston in Breathitt County. This was the first trail that Julianne rode on her own. The first 18-mile leg of the trail from Hagerhill in Johnson County to Royalton in Magoffin County was opened to hikers cyclists and.