Elk View Scenic Byway - Breathitt, Knott and Perry Counties, Kentucky
Elk View Scenic Byway - Breathitt, Knott and Perry Counties, Kentucky
Start your trip to the Elk View Scenic Byway at the Breathitt County visitor Center near Quicksand at the corner of 1098 and 15. You will continue on your way eastward into Knott County past Elk View Drive where a second elk view station is located to help you see these magnificent animals.
Then you can go southeast to Highway 80 and then west on Highway 80 past the site of Saddle UP Elk Tours where you can ride horses to see elk. Go east to Highway 15 north back into Breathitt County and you wll end up at the Visitor Center there. It's a stunning trip, one that you will truly enjoy.
Kentucky Coal Mining Museum - Benham, Kentucky
Kentucky Coal Mining Museum - Benham, Kentucky
Life for the coal miner has never been easy. They have worked hard and in perilous conditions from the early years of the settling of this county (and other countries too.) But here in Benham is a museum that will bring to life one aspect of the life that you may not have given much thought to, the company store. The museum building was the second building built by the company to house a company commissary. The first one, built on the same site, was a wooden structure destroyed by fire in the mid-teen's. The concrete 
and masonry structure replaced the burned building in 1923.
