---
id: "2345"
name: Woodlands Trace
distance: "43"
duration: 1.5 hours to drive or one day to enjoy the byway
description: Running along a ridge of land between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, Woodlands Trace is a beautiful, easy drive in rolling terrain with opportunities to pull off and explore on your own or at developed interpretive facilities. This outdoor setting includes the seasonal splendors of nature, with blossoming trees and flowers, a green canopy, brilliant fall foliage, and the open view in the forest in the winter.
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attractions:
  - url: https://friendsoflbl.org/
    name: Friends of Land Between the Lakes
  - url: https://kentuckylakebarkley.org/
    name: Kentucky's Western Waterland
  - url: https://parks.ky.gov/explore/lake-barkley-state-resort-park-7794
    name: Lake Barkley State Resort Park
  - url: https://landbetweenthelakes.us/
    name: Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area
designations:
  - National Scenic Byway
  - Kentucky State Scenic Byway
  - Tennessee State Scenic Byway
states:
  - KY
  - TN
ll:
  - -88.22055799999998
  - 36.98947099999998
bounds:
  - - -88.22055799999998
    - 36.51158099999998
  - - -87.91594700000002
    - 36.98947099999998
books: "978-1426219054"

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Running along a ridge of land between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, Woodlands Trace is a beautiful, easy drive in rolling terrain with opportunities to pull off and explore on your own or at developed interpretive facilities. This outdoor setting includes the seasonal splendors of nature, with blossoming trees and flowers in the spring, a green canopy in the summer, brilliant fall foliage, and the open view in the forest in the winter.

Travel this 43-mile passageway through Land Between the Lakes to your choice of outdoor recreation activities such as camping under the stars, hiking forest trails, exploring the universe from your planetarium seat, canoeing or kayaking picturesque bays, motorboating along splendid waterways, riding ATVs, mountain biking along lakeside clefts, horseback riding to scenic views, picnicking at a quiet pond, time-traveling to the 1850s, discovering Civil War sites, or photographing beautiful spring flowers or colorful autumn leaves.