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Breaks Interstate Park
Breaks Interstate Park is a bi-state state park located in southeastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia in the Jefferson National Forest at the northeastern terminus of Pine Mountain. It is administered by the states of Virginia and Kentucky and is one of several interstate parks in the United States.
The Breaks, also referred as the "Grand Canyon of the South," is the deepest gorge east of the Mississippi River,〔 through which the Russell Fork river and Clinchfield Railroad (now the CSX Transportation Kingsport Subdivision) run. It is accessed via Virginia State Route 80, between Haysi, Virginia and Elkhorn City, Kentucky, and passes through the community of Breaks, Virginia east of the park.
American frontiersman Daniel Boone is credited with being the first person of European descent to discover the Breaks, which he first saw in 1767.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our History )〕
==Geography==
Breaks Interstate Park is located about east of Elkhorn City, Kentucky. The park covers . The park's main feature, Breaks Canyon, is five miles long and ranges from deep. The canyon was formed by the Russell Fork river through millions of years of erosion.
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