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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Mar–May, Sep–Nov · highs 13–26 °C (55–79 °F)
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Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
About this trail
Carefully cross US 68, then follow an old Shaker roadbed and descend 400 feet to Shaker Landing. Choose to follow the more rugged single track trail through pasture and Palisades cliffs (look for the stone fence turnstyle to your left to join the trail) o
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Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 4.2 km · 2.6 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 7.9 km N of Burgin (Mercer County, Kentucky) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Mar–May, Sep–Nov
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- Kentucky
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Local route
- Operator (OSM)
- Shaker Village
- From / to
- East Trailhead → East Trailhead
- Shape
- Loop (OSM roundtrip=yes)
- Route centre
- 37.8162, -84.7294
- Route start
- 37.8198, -84.7361
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 12094271
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.