How to get there:

From Somerset, Kentucky go south on highway 27 about 30 miles to paved road 700. It goes left and right. To the left will take you to highway 90, which goes to Cumberland Falls. Turn right, and it will take you to the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River (South Fork, for short). It is several miles from the highway 27 turnoff to the river. At the river, is the Alum Ford campground (primitive) and boat ramp. A mile or so before the end of the road, is the turnoff for Yahoo Falls, on the right. This road is gravel, and meanders a couple miles down to the Falls parking lot.

There are primitive campsites at the Yahoo Falls parking area, and restrooms. When you pull in, parking for day use is on the left, by the restrooms. The road loops around to the way out. From the parking lineup, you can walk a short distance to where the road loops around and follow the short path off that to a river overlook.

From the road by the parking area, the main trail to the falls turns off to the right. It's a wide trail, and goes back to the top of the falls, crosses the little Yahoo creek, then loops around and down alongside the cliff and comes around underneath the large overhang. This picture here was made after coming around that way. For a bigger view, click here. You can come down another way, from the other side of the falls.

Instead of going along the trail to the top of the falls, you can walk part way and turn off to the left and descend metal stairs to the lower trail, and follow along the cliff line to the overhang at the falls. Here's a picture showing Barb beside that cliff. There is also a side trail from the top that goes to an overlook above Yahoo Creek hollow.

This picture was made early one spring. The rest were made this winter.

From the top of the falls, I looked over and made this picture at right. Barb made the other one. The lower trail is shown there, and the steps from it down to the pool, which was icy that day. There was a large mound of ice. It would be interesting to see a large frozen waterfall there.

These rocky places are interesting in winter too, with all the icicles hanging from the cliffs. These scenes were made from the trail that comes down from the top of the falls and loops around to the overhang. The one at right was made looking back up the trail.

The picture at left shows the same trail as above. This is heading down and around to the overhang. The right view shows Barb under that extensive overhang, and the falls. For a bigger view, click here.

These are a few winter views of this interesting place. Later on we might go back and make some spring pictures.

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