Carrie Community Center

• Lodging is needed
• Restaurants
• Other than trail rides and ATV’s – What are some other sustaining draws for lodging and hotels
• Need parking in Hindman
• Recommend a parking structure
• Develop antique business to compliment crafts downtown
• ATV trails
  • Ride from here (Mill Creek) to Letcher, Perry and back to Knott.
  • Thomas Reynolds knowledgeable of ATV trails in Carrie area.
• Pioneer Village – Development potential for using buildings for crafters and lodging in cabins.
• Red Fox Resort – Land and road to proposed golf course.   Check on status of ownership and potential for development possibilities.
• Need to open up back side of lake for hiking, biking and camping.
• Need another countywide clean-up and emphasis on keeping garbage picked up afterwards
  • If areas were cleaned up, people might help to keep them clean.
  • Litter problem – PRIDE does a good job but hollers are in bad shape.  Need major clean-up.  Need big one-time operation to clean. 
• Need to clean up Troublesome Creek
  • Could be an asset but currently more of an overgrown eyesore.
  • Need to have areas cleaned up to creek is more visible and accessible.
  • Federal dollars available for cleanup of creek
    • Could come under guise of FEMA – as flood control issue.
      • Take care of underbrush and sediment
      • But not everyone wants a rock wall built along their portion of the creek which is what has been done in the past to address flood issues. 
    • Twice Knott County received funding to dredge creek and very little was accomplished except in the Hindman area. 
    • Need to come up with a plan and everyone  contact  their state reps and congressmen to request work be done. 
• Need van at Sportsplex for tours
  • Possibility of using the vans from LKLP
  • LKLP is unable to do it as an agency but there may be a possibility of a private entrepreneur or an organization starting a tour guide service. (van, fuel, insurance)
  • Public service transportation
• Camp Nathanael – Open since the 30’s
  • Operates from Late February through Late November
  • Always open for people to visit but prefer them to call ahead.
  • Possible attractions to visit:
    • Chapel – Hand quarried and stain glass windows from DC
    • Swinging bridges
    • Could incorporate into a “tourist stop” and elk view station
• Need billboards and signage to promote what the county has to offer.  

Mousie/Jones Fork Community – at Fire Station

• Need Hotel – build near Sportsplex
• Need a good restaurant
• Discussed sewage treatment plant and need for it to come to Mousie/Jones Fork Community
  • Port-a-john or out houses
• ATV’s
  • Go up Bear Branch to strip job – More 4 wheelers than cars
  • Can ride from Dismal/Pippa Passes/Hollybush/Martin Branch all the way to Virginia
• Is county or state pushing tourism – Will they help market it.
• Elk guide – Jerry Hall has already had calls from Alabama and Land Between the Lakes for this year.
• Cabins
  • Interest in building  cabins if the county will help to advertise them.
  • Several have plans to build cabins on their property but are trying to work out getting water and sewer to the sites at some point. 
    • One person has a brother renting cabins in Ohio for $359 per weekend with very little to offer other than bird watching and quiet area. 
    • Hunters need places to stay as do families.
• Need to build nice lodging – not shacks.  Locate in strategic locations throughout county.
  • Do not want to be in worn out trailers or areas badly kept.   Want the county to establish themselves as a quality place to visit – Attract high end clientel that have money to spend.
  • One proposed site runs into Caney area.
  • Another potential area includes 150 acres where one can drive a car into it. 
    • Awesome view (See all the way to Dollywood.)
  • Carl Gibson and others have approximately 1,000 acres to develop and is very interested in developing ca bins on their property
• Need campgrounds
  • Potential to use both Caney and Beckham Combs Elementary schools which already have water and sewer and could accommodate 30 campsites or more. 
    • Backhoe in one week could have it  done.  
• County needs to develop a website.
• Need to work with PRIDE  and CEDARinc.org
• Need to educate people in the area with land to open it up to hunting
  • Concern about county trail ride taking place during hunting season
  • Concern that deer hunting season is during rutting season.
• Crafters in area  and potential of developing a crafts trail
• Ode Gibson in Pinetop area makes rocking chairs with bark bottoms
• Many people in the Mousie area love to ride horses and that during the county trail ride, this part of the county is a ghost town.