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Nada Tunnel is a historic 900-foot (270 m) long tunnel along Kentucky Route 77 in Powell County, Kentucky. Formerly a railway tunnel, the tunnel has often been described as the "Gateway to Red River Gorge" due to the shortcut it now provides motorists to the Red River Gorge canyons of the Daniel Boone National Forest.

Built for the Dana Lumber Company between 1910 and 1911, Nada Tunnel (pronounced nay-duh by locals) was named for Nada, Kentucky, then a logging town about 10 miles (16 km) past the tunnel's entrance. Solid limestone was blasted with dynamite and dug out with steam machinery and hand tools, with two teams working from each side of the ridge.

The tunnel's original dimensions were 12 by 12 feet (3.7 m × 3.7 m), but when the first train load of logs got stuck and had to be blasted free, its height was increased to 13 feet (4.0 m). Narrow gauge seam locomotives of the Big Woods, Red River & Lombard Railroad regularly hauled timber extracted from the vast forests of the Red River Valley through the tunnel, to a sawmill 15 miles (24 km) away in Clay City

Once the forests had been cleared, the timber companies pulled out of the area. The railroad tracks were removed and a dirt road in the unlit tunnel was opened to horse and pedestrian traffic. Nada Tunnel has since been paved to carry a single lane of road traffic.

Nada Tunnel itself and the prehistoric Native American rock art sites Nada Tunnel 1 Petroglyphs and Nada Tunnel 2 contribute to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Powell County, Kentucky.

  • Portal of the Nada Tunnel Portal of the Nada Tunnel
  • Portal of the Nada Tunnel in 1995 Portal of the Nada Tunnel in 1995
  • Inside the unlit tunnel Inside the unlit tunnel

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