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Pickett Civilian Conservation Corps Memorial State Park

  • address 4605 Pickett Park Highway, Jamestown, TN 3855636.566492-84.7955748

Pickett Civilian Conservation Corps Memorial State Park is a Tennessee state park in the upper Cumberland Mountains. It is located in Pickett County, northeast of the city of Jamestown, and is adjacent to the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.

Pickett CCC Memorial State Park lies within the 20,887-acres Pickett State Forest and is adjacent to the massive 125,000 acre Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. In 1933, the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company donated nearly 12,000 acres of land to the State of Tennessee to be developed as a forest recreational area. Initial development of the area by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) occurred between 1934 through 1942. The CCC constructed hiking trails, five rustic cabins, a recreation lodge, a ranger station, and a 12-acre lake. The park memorializes and preserves the unique work of the CCC who first developed the park.

In 2015, Pickett CCC Memorial State Park and Pogue Creek Canyon State Natural Area earned Silver-tier International Dark Sky Park designation. It became the first state park in the Southeast to gain this prestigious recognition. Visitors can enjoy sweeping, rich views of the night sky similar to those found in many of the Western states.

Reservations:
1-888-TN-PARKS

1-888-867-2757

Ralph Stanley Museum

  • address  249 Main Street, Clintwood, VA 2422837.1499303-82.4572898

The Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center provides a truly unique, interactive experience. Visitors can see and hear traditional American mountain music in its original setting – the beautiful mountains of southwestern Virginia. You haven’t fully experienced Ralph Stanley’s music and traditional mountain music until you’ve journeyed into the heart of Appalachia and visited this iconic museum.

Rattlesnake 192 Souvenir Shack

  • address 8855 Highway 192 , Somerset, KY 4250137.0726875-84.4465263

For those enjoying the 150 turns in 12 miles on the Rattlesnake, be sure to stop at the Souvenir Shack at the Brake on the Snake for souvenirs and gifts.

Souvenir Shack is located at the Brake on the Snake (Rattlesnake192). The Rattlesnake is a remote twisty road in the foothills of southern Kentucky.

Raven Rock Trading Co.

  • address 412 Main Street, Cumberland, KY 4082336.97726-82.98925609999999

A shop with gifts, accessories, decor, bath and body, local products, seasonal, tee’s, and much more!

Roper’s Market

  • address 144 W. Hwy 72 Baxter 40806 , Baxter, KY 4080636.8598108-83.330737

Located at the edge of Harlan, just past the Coal Monument, we offer high quality produce, homestyle jarred items, candy making supplies, seeds and plants, locally raised meats, Kentucky coffee, snack items, old-fashioned candy, Mennonite baked goods, Harlan County honey and artwork, glass bottle pop, and more. As a Kentucky Proud and Appalachia Proud market, our goal is to offer as many local or close-to-home products, as we can, connecting those who grow and produce with those who want to buy a product from their home area or where they are visiting.

Seven North Apparel

  • address 2146 Highway 7 North, Whitesburg, KY 4185837.2048501-82.87470479999999

Seven North Apparel provides unique, comfy, durable, and area fitting gear for eastern KY and the Appalachias, also custom work.

Sugar Mountain Trading Co.

  • address 40 Church Street, Mt Vernon, KY 4045637.3523333-84.3389583

We are an all natural soap, lotion and bath salt company based in the heart of historic Mt. Vernon Ky.
Our soaps are handcrafted all natural lye based soaps, which are perfectly formulated to deeply clean, exfoliate and moisturize your skin and is ideal for everyday use. It last 2 to 3 times longer than commercial soaps, and has shown to be great for people with a host of skin problems like Eczema, Psoriasis, dry itchy skin and acne. Our bodies are bombarded with man made chemicals everyday, from every which way. These chemicals over time damage us. The extraordinary blend of Honey, Shea and three different types of Oats combined in an all natural lye soap, infused with vitamins and minerals is unique. Unique in the fact it helps re-balance your skins natural PH balance, thus allowing your body time to heal itself.

SugarPie’s Gift Shoppe & Pendleton County Peddlers Mall

  • address 226 West Shelby Street, Falmouth, KY 4104038.6775317-84.3318954

SugarPie’s Gift Shoppe & Pendleton County Peddlers Mall

T & T Outdoors

Outdoors Shop/Gas

  • address 4609 KY-7, Grayson, KY 41143

Outdoors shop offering fuel, fishing, hunting, and camping supplies.

The Dragon Slayer Welcome Center

Backroads of Appalachia Welcome Center

  • address 7 East Main, Lynch, Ky 4085536.9649618-82.9159818

Backroads of Appalachia is a non-profit organization with a passion and empathy for the Appalachian Region, driving economic development, job training and opportunity to the poverty stricken areas of Appalachia through tourism and motor sports.

This is where it all began, the Dragon Slayer Welcome Center. The beating heart of Backroads of Appalachia, this building has served as the trailhead for HWY160 since the Non-profits conception. Be sure to stop in and say hello, get your pictures taken, sign the wall, and get some merch from the very building that started everything you see today. Thank you all for your continued support.

 

Valley Of The Winds Art Gallery

  • address 2356 KY-806, Eolia, KY 4082637.0537088-82.79154899999999

Jeff Chapman-Crane is a full-time professional artist from the southern Appalachian Mountains, where he has lived and practiced his art since the early 1970s. His art focuses on the culture of Appalachia, with an emphasis on portraits of mountain people.

Jeff has been painting for over forty years since being challenged and inspired by his high school art teacher, Don Hilton. Following the tenets of the American Society of Classical Realism, Jeff’s work encompasses the highest principles of traditional representational art – fine drawing, balanced design, harmonious color, and skillful craftsmanship. While not in the stylized realism of American Regionalism, his work shares a strong identification with a particular region – conveying geographic features of the land and unique human, cultural, and social characteristics.

Willing Hearts, Inc.

  • address 503 Main Street, Cumberland, KY 4082336.9775963-82.989357

Willing Hearts, Inc. is a 501c3, non-profit organization, established to empower and encourage individuals through the art of stained glass.
Willing Hearts, Inc., is a non-profit, charitable, 501(c)3 organization, consisting of three major components:
1) Willing Hearts Empowerment Program (WHEP) 
2) A working studio – Teaching hands-on, techniques for creating stained glass art, and other forms of art glass to all interested people groups.
3) A retail space – Will contain completed art glass projects for sale to the general public, (created by participants in the Empowerment Program), along with all types of stained glass, and art glass supplies that artisans and hobbyist can purchase.