Pine Mountain State Resort Park

Pine Mountain State Resort Park
Pine Mountain State Park Nature Preserve
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
Chained Rock
Map showing the location of Pine Mountain State Resort Park
Map showing the location of Pine Mountain State Resort Park
Location in Kentucky
Map showing the location of Pine Mountain State Resort Park
Map showing the location of Pine Mountain State Resort Park
Location in United States
LocationBell County, Kentucky, United States
Nearest cityPineville, Kentucky
Coordinates36°45′04″N 83°42′33″W / 36.75111°N 83.70917°W / 36.75111; -83.70917
Area1,159 acres (4.69 km2)
Established1924
Governing bodyKentucky Department of Parks
parks.ky.gov/parks/resortparks/pine-mountain/

Pine Mountain State Resort Park is a Kentucky state park located in Bell County, southeastern Kentucky, United States. Located on part of the Pine Mountain ridge in the Appalachians, the park opened in 1924 as Kentucky's first state park.

Each spring since 1933, the park has hosted the annual Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival.[1][2] A portion of the park is legally dedicated as a nature preserve by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves.

  1. ^ "History". Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
  2. ^ Susan Reigler, Pam Spaulding (2009). "Eastern Kentucky Parks". The Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-9208-0.