The Daniel Boone National Forest covers a wide swath of Eastern and Southern Kentucky. It stretches through twenty-one counties from Morehead to the Big South Fork bordering Tennessee.
In all the federal forest is 700,00 acres of dense woods, mountains, streams, and rock shelters. It’s those rock shelters that archeologists say are a gold mine of artifacts from Native Americans that date back at least nine-thousand years.
The rock shelters are not caves, but outcroppings of rock that protected people from harsh weather.
