Banner: Mine-Made Adventure Park was named one of the top trail and travel destinations by both ATV Illustrated and ATV Magazine.
The Mine Made Adventure Park is made up of hundreds of miles of trails on 43,000 acres of reclaimed coal land located just outside the towns of Leburn and Hindman in the Appalachian mountains of East Kentucky.
ATV and Dirtbike Trails:
100 miles of well marked looped trails for ATV’s, Side-by-Sides and dirt bikes with more trails planned. Click here for events.
Trails are all numbered marked green for easy, blue for intermediate riders, and black for those who truly like a challenge. Click here for detailed map and more on off-road vehicle trails at Mine Made Adventure Park.
An additional 32 miles of trails dedicated just to dirt bikes will be opening soon.
Knott County ATV & Streetbike Training Center is located at Mine Made Adventure Park. Click here for more on this.
Horseback Riding Trails:
Five looped trails for horseback riding also very well marked.
Stable and Riding Ring on site. Stall space available to rent. Click here for more details and a map of the horse trails.
Elk Viewing Opportunities:
Mine Made Adventure Park is the ideal place to view elk. Jenny Wiley State Park offers guided elk tours to this site. Hundreds of elk roam free in this area.
Best time of year to view them is Spring and Fall. During the hot summer months, best to look for them in the early dawn and at dusk. Click here for more on elk in Knott County.
Camping opportunities:
Full-service campground offering electrical hook-ups, water, & shower house. Call for price at (304) 784-1981.
Primitive camping is now available at trailhead. $15 per trailer/camper/tent for up to 4 people. Includes hot shower. Note: One lodging unit per site
Other camping available on Fire Trail, click here for information.
Additional people at campsite - $5 each.
Hot Showers also available for noncampers - $5 per shower. Call Bill at (304)784-1981 for campground information
Riding Stable now available. First come, first serve. $10 a night per stall.
Bring your own shavings.
Renter responsible for mucking out their stall. Call Debbie at (859)609-1288
Note: Riding Ring also on site
Other contact numbers: Tim (606) 233-0080 or Debby (270) 792-5300
ATV Safety Training Center:
Knott County has one of the only ATV Safety Training Centers in the U.S. which also includes a skills test course and access to hundreds of miles of trails to try out your skills. Call Tim at (606) 233-0080 or visit www.kcrtc.com.
Center also offers safety training courses for dirt bikes and street bikes. Click here for more on the Knott County ATV Safety Training Center
Click here to download a PDF version of the Mine Made Paradise Park Newsletter.
Kawasaki brought in two huge rigs all the way from California to give top off-road publicists a chance to check out some of the new models and to provide an opportunity to preview some of the off-road motorized trails being developed in Knott County. This was a week long media blitz for writers and riders. Media sources are flying in all week from Ohio, Georgia, Oregon, Maryland, Nevada, Michigan, New York, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, North Carolina and California just to check out our trails! Click here for press releases.
Corporate sponsors have included Toyota, can-am, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Kenda Tire. Yamaha and can-am provided demo rides all weekend long which allowed people an opportunity to try out different bikes. Toyota had four trucks on display. Destination Polaris arrived on Saturday and filmed a segment for their television show. Local sponsors on-site included Pikeville RV, YPK Motorsports from Jackson KY and Andy’s Cycle out of Hazard.
In October of 2010, ATV Magazine held the 2011 ATV Trials at the Mine Made Park. Tom Kaiser of ATV Magazine said, "It's a fantastic riding area that will open to the public in the Spring of 2011, and we loved the mountainous trails which were a great venue for testing the latest crop of quads from the 2011 model year."Click herefor article and photos by Wayne Davis.
SPECIAL EVENTS AT MINE MADE ADVENTURE PARK
Knott County’s Mine Made Adventure Park is home to the Spring Ground Poundin' ATV event and the Fall Brawl each year. The 2010 Spring Ground Poundin' brought in riders from West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, North Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas, California as well as all over Kentucky.
Click on map above for a larger version.
ATV /Motorcycle Training Center(see photos below) is accredited by Motorcycle Safety Foundation. It is sitting on 10 acres dedicated to teaching rider safety. On-site riders can practice the safety skills they can and will use out on the trails. There is a large paved area used for street bike certification training and the Center itself houses classrooms and park headquarters. The facility is the only dedicated ATV & motorcycle training center in the Appalachian region and the only training facility that includes closed course training ranges, a skills practice course as well as beginning, intermediate, and challenge trails accessible from the Center. Call (606) 233-0080 or visit www.kcrtc.com.
Horseback Trail Riding - Over 100 miles of dedicated trails in Mine Made Paradise Park. Knott County Fiscal Court hosts two annual events:
Spring Ride, scheduled for the first weekend in May 4-6, 2012.
Fall Ride, scheduled for the first weekend in October 5-7, 2012.
The Fall 2010 ride had over 10,000 people and 5,000 horses from all over the United States attend the three day event. Some people arrived early and made it an all week trip. People and their horses came from: Michigan, Texas, Utah, Florida, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and many more. Click here for more photos and join us on Facebook.
Camping at Mine Made Adventure Park:
Full Service Campground offering electrical hook ups, water, and shower house available at trailhead. Call Bill at (304) 784-1981 or Debbie (859) 609-1288 for prices and information.
Primitive camping is now available at trailhead.
$15 per trailer/camper/tent for up to 4 people per night. Includes hot shower (Note: One lodging unit per site)
Additional people at campsite - $5 each.
Hot Showers also available for noncampers - $5 per shower.
Call Bill at (304)784-1981 or (859) 609-1288 for campground information.
Riding Stable now available. First come, first serve.
$10 a night per stall.
Bring your own shavings.
Renter responsible for mucking out their stall. Call Debbie at (859) 609-1288
Note: Riding Ring also on site.
Other contact numbers: Tim (606) 233-0080 or Debby (270) 792-5300
Elk Viewing Possibilities:
With over 11,000 elk, Southeast Kentucky has more elk than any state east of the Rockies and Knott County has been declared the "Elk Capital of the East".
One of the best places to view elk is up on Elk View Drive near the ATV Training Center off of Hwy 1098. The best time to view elk is at sunrise and at dusk especially in early Fall, Winter and Spring.
For a unique experience every Spring and Fall, Saddle Up Elk Tours offers guided trail rides through the "heart of elk country" on horseback. Call (606) 642-3656 to set up your ride today.
Elk Tours are also offered through: Jenny Wiley State Resort Park (606) 889-1790, Buckhorn State Resort Park (606) 398-7510, or Pine Mountain State Resort Park (606) 337-1712.
Directions:
The address to plug into your Navigation System is :
64 Clydean Road, Leburn KY 41831 This will actually take you to the BP Station at the intersection of Hwy 80 & Hwy 1098 where you will take Hwy 1098 North. Go exactly 2 miles to top of mountain and turn left onto Elk View Drive and follow the signs to the campground.
Exact GPS coordinates for the two locations:
Knott County ATV Safety Training Center/Campground 37 24 32 68n 82 59 39 80w
