Land Between The Lakes National Forest

Land Between The Lakes isn’t your typical national forest—it’s a 170,000-acre peninsula between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley that proves reclaimed land can become something extraordinary. Once struggling farmland, now thriving habitat for elk, bison, and eagles. Miles of shoreline, dark skies, and zero pretension. This is where the South gets wild without the fanfare. Rep a comeback story that most people drive right past.