It rises in the mountainous region of the Cumberland Plateau, in eastern Wolfe County, approximately 15 mi (24 km) east of Campton. It flows generally west, through Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest, then past Stanton and Clay City. It joins the Kentucky approximately 11 mi (18 km) southeast of Kentucky.
In 1993, a 20 mi (32 km) stretch of the river in the Red River Gorge was designated by the federal government as the Red Wild and Scenic River.
External links
Red River Gorge geologic area (http://www.redrivergorge.org/)
U.S. Forest Service: Red River Gorge (http://www.southernregion.fs.fed.us/boone/rrg.htm)
Red Wild and Scenic River (http://www.nps.gov/rivers/wsr-red.html)
RedRiver of the North, flowing north through Minnesota, North Dakota, and Manitoba into Lake Winnipeg, finding its outlet to the Sea, via the Nelson River, at Hudson Bay.
The pancake-flat RedRiver Valley is a remnant of glacial Lake Agassiz.
RedRiver (Mississippi watershed), a Mississippi tributary flowing between Texas and Oklahoma.
The RedRiver is a major stream of north-central Tennessee and south-central Kentucky and is a major tributary of the Cumberland River.
About a mile and a half (2 km) above its mouth into the Cumberland, the RedRiver is joined by the West Fork of the RedRiver, its last tributary, which drains eastern Christian County and western Todd County, Kentucky.
As the area drained by the RedRiver becomes somewhat less agricultural and more of the remaining farmers switch to techniques involving less cultivation, it is likely that this color will continue to lessen in intensity, but certainly will not vanish.
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