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RouteType: HIGH SPEED SWEEPERS, some TECHNICAL, DESTINATION
Navigation difficulty: AVERAGE
Distance: 280 miles, about 7 hours
Lunch Stop: Carter Caves State Resort Park lodge
Direction from Mt Sterling: E COUNTERCLOCKWISE
Comments: 280 miles, but much of it is higher speed sweepers. 7 hours. Some technical riding on SR-77 and through the Nada Tunnel area. Goes by Natural Bridge State Resort Park and Grayson Lake State Park on the way to the lunch-stop at Carter Caves State Resort Park lodge. On the way back it goes around Cave Run Lake State Park and across the southern part of the lake.
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RouteType: TWISTY, DESTINATION
Navigation difficulty: AVERAGE
Distance: 337-350 miles, 7-8 hours
Lunch Stop: Curklin's Lunch Stop, Big Stone Gap, VA
Direction from Mt Sterling: SE, COUNTERCLOCKWISE
Comments: There are two optional return routes, the longer one has more twisties. An all-day route, but much of it is on roads with speed limits of 55mph, some divided highway state routes. Black Mountain is the highest elevation in Kentucky at 4,145 feet. An excellent, well paved, and very twisty route 160 goes over it and into Virginia. Eat lunch in Appalachia, Virginia. One of the best roads in the eastern US. I highly recommend it!
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RouteType: TWISTY, DESTINATION
Navigation difficulty: AVERAGE
Distance: 288 miles, 7 hours
Lunch Stop: Riverview Restaurant in the State Park Lodge
Direction from Mt Sterling: S, COUNTERCLOCKWISE
Comments: A 288-mile route that takes you to the Niagara of the South, Cumberland Falls State Resort Park. 7 hours. The only site in the western hemisphere where a moonbow is regularly visible. (but only at night) The route uses parts of the Hillbilly Triangle route on the way down and back. Another highlight on the way down is route 1193, which may remind some of you of a racetrack with its great pavement and ample runoff. Lunch at the Riverview Restaurant in the State Park Lodge.
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RouteType: TWISTY
Navigation difficulty: AVERAGE
Distance: 201 miles, 5 hours
Lunch Stop: Olde Bus Stop Dinner in Booneville, KY
Direction from Mt Sterling: S, COUNTERCLOCKWISE
Comments: . The most popular of the routes and the most well-known. The route takes you south through the Daniel Boone National Forest and then back north through the Nada Tunnel and the actual Red River Gorge recreation area. Lunch-stop at the Olde Bus Stop Dinner in Booneville. Gas next to the dinner.
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RouteType: TWISTY, DESTINATION
Navigation difficulty: AVERAGE
Distance: 166 miles, 4-1/4 hours
Lunch Stop: Biankie’s, Cynthiana KY
Direction from Mt Sterling: NW, CLOCKWISE
Comments: The shortest route, but with plenty of places to stop and take pictures and attractions to stop at if you desire. Takes you past many of the great horse breeding farms that Kentucky is famous for. Stop in at the Kentucky Horse Park and visit the Museum or just walk the grounds. Route will take you past such famous farms as Calumet, the home of Triple Crown Winner, Secretariat. Lunch-stop at Biankie’s in Cynthiana, which has been there since 1896. Try the Kentucky Hot Brown and some pie! Twisty roads are part of the route in the northern section.
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RouteType: TWISTY
Navigation difficulty: AVERAGE
Distance: 261 miles, 6-1/4 hours
Lunch Stop: Stars and Stripes Restaurant, Louisa, KY
Direction from Mt Sterling: E, COUNTERCLOCKWISE
Comments: The highlight on the way over is route 32 from Morehead east to Louisa. Louisa sits on the border of Kentucky and West Virginia. The route back is also very twisty, with SR 486 being a personal favorite road filled with sweepers through narrow valleys. Lunch in Louisa at the Stars and Stripes.
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RouteType: TWISTY
Navigation difficulty: AVERAGE
Distance: 229 miles, 6-1/4 hours
Lunch Stop: Two Rivers Pizza, Falmouth, KY
Direction from Mt Sterling: NW, CLOCKWISE
Comments: : 229 miles of the best that NKY has to offer in the way of great sport-touring roads. 6 ¼ hours. You’ll experience such well known roads as state routes 227, 22, 165, and 1504, as you wind yourself over the famous ridge roads that this area is so well known for. In the middle of the route is a loop that will remind some of the famous IOM TT course as it uses routes 1504 and 62 to form a 16-mile triangle. So much fun that you’ll want to stay there and run laps! Lunch and gas in Falmouth.
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