Beaver Creek Wilderness

Beaver Creek Wilderness is a 4,791-acre protected area in Kentucky within the Stearns Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest. Set below the clifflines of the Beaver Creek drainage, it occupies a rugged landscape largely enclosed by sandstone walls. Designated as wilderness in 1975, it is known for its high cliffs, natural arches, and rock shelters. Those shelters were used first by Native Americans and later by early settlers, linking the area’s dramatic geology to human history. The wilderness also provides habitat for white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, foxes, raccoons, muskrats, mink, beavers, and eastern black bears.

Ferguson, Kentucky · United States