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Big Bone Lick State Park
Who names these parks?There's me, road tripping through Indiana, minding my own business, when bam! I'm at some park called Big Bone Lick.
Technically located in Kentucky, Big Bone Lick calls itself "the birthplace of American paleontology." I didn't know American paleontology was into that!
Apparently, they found pleistocene megafauna fossils there. Yeah, I don't know what that means either, but they say that mammoths and other prehistoric creatures were drawn there by a natural salt lick.
Okay. Bones. Salt lick. It get it. It still sounds like a porno, though, and is probably the #1 state park gift shop in America that I'd like to raid for mildly inappropriate gifts. Next stop, French Lick, Indiana, home of Larry Bird and a lot of happy people.
Should they change it to Freedom Lick? ...nah.
Filed under: Hiking, North America, United States, Camping
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ev Nov 3rd 2008 4:07PM
hahha, this is in an Afroman song called 'Kentucky' worth a listen to.
Jenny Nov 3rd 2008 11:37PM
I've been to that park... multiple times. I grew up in Cincinnati and always had fun taking my out of town friends there. Truthfully, it's a beautiful park with fun hiking trails and even a cool miniature golf course!
Brenda SFO Nov 3rd 2008 9:51PM
I grew up in Cincy too and have also played in that park. When I'm in the area, I still smile when I see the sign. :-)
Becca Nov 4th 2008 1:27AM
Somewhere along the main highway from Los Angeles to Phoenix there's a Sore Finger Road.
Marijka Nov 4th 2008 11:31PM
Oh, there are lots of licks in KY! I've lived here 8 years and still get a kick out of all the streets, parks, etc., that sound like porn. Check out "Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology" by Stanley Hedeen and John Mack Faragher.
drufanof2 Nov 5th 2008 6:34PM
I live in Lexington Ky and going North on I75 you pass a sign also that says Big Bone Lick State Park. We always laugh wondering how it might be listed in a phone directory....