The Falls are located twenty (20) miles west of Corbin, Ky., in Cumberland Falls State park and can be easily reached over n State-maintained rood recently finished. Cumberland Falls is sometimes called "Kentucky's Niagara." The Falls are about sixty-eight feet in height, average width about 125 ft. The tremendous volume of water that passes over the Falls at times creates a roor and a mist of a young Miagara. The moonbow seen from the Falls during full moon on clear nights in a natural phenomenon occuring in only two places in the world-Victorin Falls in Southern Africa and Cumberland Fallsin Kentucky.
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