Greenbo Lake State Resort Park

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Greenbo Lake State Resort Park
Greenbo Lake
Type	Kentucky state park
Location	Greenup County, Kentucky
Size	3330 acres ^[1]^[2]
Opened	1954^[1]
Operated by	Kentucky Department of Parks
Status	Open year-round

Greenbo Lake State Resort Park in Kentucky is a resort park in the northeastern part of the commonwealth, close to the town of Greenup, Kentucky in Greenup County on Kentucky State Route 1. It features a 36 room lodge named for Greenup County resident and writer Jesse Hilton Stuart, a 63-site campground with 35 primitive sites, a swimming pool with slides, two tennis courts, an 18-hole miniature golf course and a new amphitheater.^[1] The lodge contains a 232-seat dining room. It is centered around the 300-acre Greenbo Lake that features a boat dock and marina.^[1] There are over 25 miles of hiking, biking and horseback trails.

[edit] Events

The park, in partnership with the Kentucky Genealogical Society, is hosting Kentucky Genealogy Weekend on March 23-24, 2007.^[3] It also has an outdoor amphitheater that produces many plays, musicals, theatrical performances and musical dramas throughout the peak season.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d History of Greenbo Lake State Resort Park. Kentucky Department of Parks. Retrieved on 2008-02-13.
^ (1992) "Parks, State", in Kleber, John E.: The Kentucky Encyclopedia, Associate editors: Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813117720.
^ Greenbo kicks off state ancestry research event. The Independent (15 March 2007). Retrieved on 2007-03-19.

[edit] External links

This Kentucky state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

v • d • e Protected Areas of Kentucky

National Parks, Recreation Areas and Historic Sites	Mammoth Cave National Park • Cumberland Gap National Historical Park • Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area • Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site

State Nature Preserves	Axe Lake Swamp • Bad Branch Falls • Brigadoon • Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns• Beargrass Creek • Blackacre • Blue Licks • Jesse Stuart • Natural Bridge • Six Mile Island

State Resort Parks	Barren River Lake • Buckhorn Lake • Carter Caves • Cumberland Falls • General Butler • Grayson Lake • Green River Lake • Greenbo Lake • Jenny Wiley • Kenlake • Kentucky Dam Village • Lake Barkley • Lake Cumberland • Natural Bridge • Pennyrile Forest • Pine Mountain • Rough River Dam

State Historic Sites	Boone Station • Constitution Square • Dr. Thomas Walker • Isaac Shelby Cemetery • Jefferson Davis • Old Mulkey Meetinghouse • Perryville Battlefield • Waveland • White Hall • William Whitley House

State Recreation Parks	Ben Hawes • Blue Licks Battlefield • Big Bone Lick • Carr Creek • Columbus-Belmont • Dale Hollow Lake • E. P. "Tom" Sawyer • Fort Boonesborough • General Burnside • John James Audubon • Kincaid Lake • Kingdom Come • Lake Malone • Levi Jackson Wilderness Road • Lincoln Homestead • Mineral Mound • My Old Kentucky Home • Nolin Lake • Old Fort Harrod • Paintsville Lake • Taylorsville Lake • Yatesville Lake

State Forests	Dewey Lake • Kentenia • Kentucky Ridge • Knobs • Pennyrile • Olympia • Tygarts State Forest

Other	Breaks Interstate Park • Daniel Boone National Forest • Kentucky Horse Park

Kentucky Department of Parks (web)