Kentucky an Unexplored Motorcycle Frontier: Highway 100 to Dale Hollow Lake

It's starting to become difficult to find new motorcycle rides here in Tennessee.  After riding to all 95 Tennessee Counties and over 10 years in the saddle locally, there are not many new roads.  So we turned our bikes north to the State of Kentucky that is largely a mystery; to test the waters, so to say.  Kentucky is a large motorcycle friendly state that has a lot of great roads and friendly people.  So we make reservations at the Dale Hollow State Park Resort and set a path through uncharted waters.

We leave on a late summer Saturday morning.   We cross the border on US Highway 31E North, crossing from Tennessee into Kentucky.   We stop for lunch in Scotsbourgh where we pick up Kentucky Highway 100.  This road is full of great turns.  If you ride this road hold on tight. It will definitely give you what you need.

We come to the Historical Marker for Camp Anderson. Since my
sir name is Anderson, it's hard not to feel a connection to this place.  During the Civil War Kentucky was an enigma, having both a union and confederate personality.   The Union Camp here on highway 100 was just one example.  The Confederates tried to capture me here but I had left just in time.  I'm everywhere just like on my motorcycle.

We stay on Highway 100 making our way to the Tompkinsville and the Old Mulkey Meeting House State Historical site.  The oldest meeting house/chapel in the state.  The burial site of many revolutionary war soldiers and Daniel Boon's sister, Hannah.  They were having a wedding there later in the evening.  It would be a special spot for a wedding ceremony.

We then head to our destination for the evening, Dale Hollow Lake State Resort, which sits on a mountain overlooking the lake.  We splurge and get a room with a lake view. It was great drinking coffee and taking in the lake views in the morning.

The next day we ride off the mountain to Highway 90 for a quick trip to Glasgow Kentucky, which is named after Glasgow Scotland.   We stop in the center of town take a quick walk around town to the courthouse square.   The Confederate memorial debate seems to be being played out in Glasgow.  They do have a memorial to the Confederate dead,  but they also have a memorial to an important African American woman in the square.  It seems like Glasgow is trying to find a balance to the whole question.

After leaving Glasgow it's a quick trip down US Highway 31E back to Scotsbrough.  We then re-joining Highway 100 for the trip to Franklin, KY and finally back home to Clarksville.  It was a great trip with a lot learned.  Kentuck has a lot of un-ridden roads which we will be exploring over the next few years.  It is a great state.