Elkhorn City, KY | The Crossing

Pippa Passes was a weird place in the middle of nowhere. Everything was rural there, except for Alice Lloyd College. The academic buildings stood in sharp contrast to the rest of the town. It didn’t seem at all the right place for a modern university.

Purpose Rd was the main thoroughfare through Alice Lloyd College. This was the intersection with Action Lane, so one might say that Action was at right angles to Purpose.

I had wondered what this might be. Coal mining.

This was the general layout of the narrow valley. The road was on one side of the stream, and the houses were all on the other side. Each house had its own bridge.

I had a tough climb up highway 122, but had a bit of serendipity in discovering Last Chance Liquors at the top. The descent was worse. It was steep, and full of potholes. I actually stopped at one point to let my brakes cool. After that one hill, however, everything was relatively flat all day.

Early in the morning, I had a long climb up road 1091, but the descent was worse: steep, and full of potholes. I had to stop to let my brakes cool. The climb up 122 to Last Chance Liquors (above) was hot. After this, I took 122 to 610 to 197, all the way to Elkhorn City, avoiding the Gravel Alternate that another cyclist had warned me about early in the trip.

I stopped at Moore’s Motel, just inside of the Kentucky border. Like most motels, it had a restaurant next door. I enjoyed a very good dinner of chicken, mustard greens, corn, fried potatoes, tomatoes, and cornbread for $3.50. The area obviously had a depressed standard of living. The motel was only $17.90, including tax.

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