Cumberland Gap National Historical Park

Cumberland Gap is a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains at the junction of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and served as the primary route for westward migration of European settlers through the mountains in the late eighteenth century. Daniel Boone widened the existing Native American trail into the Wilderness Road between 1775 and 1796, through which an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 settlers passed into Kentucky and the Ohio Valley. The Pinnacle overlook at 2,440 feet provides a panoramic view across the gap into three states simultaneously.