Breaks Interstate Park

At the end of this geological heave-and-hoe, the Russell Fork bursts out of the canyon walls into a paradoxical landscape. Immediately after the stream enters Kentucky, it is welcomed by a gentle and flat countryside at the base of Pine Mountain. This area is known as Potters' Flats, named for the early pioneers who settled there. A landscape, which bears no resemblance to that upstream, provides a place of rest for the small and determined stream, a gift for its relentless work to break through the heart of Pine Mountain.