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Tour #1 – Kid Friendly – Closed Toed Shoes Required – Must Ride the Bus

• Wolf Creek Fish Hatchery

Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery is a National Fish Hatchery located just below Wolf Creek Dam in Russell County, Kentucky. The hatchery is a federal hatchery and is a part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

 

Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery (NFH) was constructed in 1975, making it one of the most recently constructed hatcheries in the federal system. With 70 hatcheries nationwide, Wolf Creek NFH is one of 14 hatcheries in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Southeast Region. The station currently produces approximately 1,000,000 rainbow, brown and brook trout annually. In cooperation with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, fish are stocked into over 100 different public fishing waters in the state.

 

The hatchery's water supply comes from lake Cumberland at a depth ranging from 25 to 100 feet below the water surface. The water temperatures will range from 40 degrees Fahrenheit to 65 degrees Fahrenheit depending on the time of year. The water gravity flows through the hatchery at rates up to 15,000 gallons per minute.

 

The Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery Visitor/Environmental Education Center opened to the public in September 2006. The new facility was the first center of its kind at a National Fish Hatchery. Through state-of-the-art exhibits, classroom, indoor theater and gift shop, the center serves as a fun and engaging learning resource for all visitors, especially school children from the region.

Tour #2 – Closed Toed Shoes Required – Must Ride the Bus

• Gatormade Trailers

Gatormade Inc. is a nationally known brand name for top quality trailers, trailer parts, and equipment. Gator Made offers factory direct sales and has locations in Atlanta Georgia, Charlotte North Carolina, Cincinnati Ohio, and Nicholasville, Kentucky. Gator USA trailers are manufactured or distributed at our corporate headquarters in Somerset Kentucky.

 

Gatormade also has a very strong dealer network in the north east United States and distribution centers in most Canadian provinces. Gator Made trailers: Montreal Quebec, Gator Made Trailers Mid Atlantic, which serves Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Gator Made Trailers serves Winnipeg Manitoba, Calgary Alberta Canada, Edmonton Alberta Canada, Red Deer Alberta Canada, Grand Prairie Alberta, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, and Toronto Ontario Canada.

Tour #3 – Closed Toed Shoes/Boots Required – Must Ride the Bus

• Cooper Power Plant

The John Sherman Cooper Power Station is a coal-fired power plant owned and operated by the East Kentucky Power Cooperative located just outside of Somerset, KY. EKPC is a not-for-profit generation and transmission electric utility with headquarters in Winchester, Ky. The cooperative is owned and governed by 16 consumer-owned electricity distribution co-ops. EKPC’s vital mission is to safely generate and transmit affordable, reliable power to these cooperatives serving more than 1 million Kentuckians. Together with their owner-members, they known as Kentucky’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives.

Tour #4 – Closed Toed Shoes Required – Must Ride the Bus

• Alan Hubble Farms

Located in Eubank, KY, Alan and his wife Heidi own and operate a several thousand-acre row crop and cattle farm. In addition to his own farming enterprise, Alan and his father also run a custom grain and silage harvesting business. Alan uses the harvested grain and silage to create a custom ration for his livestock and produce a high-quality calf for market.

• KNS Mineral

KNS has just opened their new headquarters facility in Pulaski County, KY. The support of amazing, loyal customers in addition to the uplifting and motivating gestures from our friends and families have made this all possible. KNS is a family owned by Michael Peterson and Julie Branscum Peterson. Three generations are involved in the day to day, including Michael’s dad who is on the road visiting with producers and the Peterson kids who can be found helping out after school!

Tour #5 – Closed Toed Shoes Required – Must Ride the Bus

• Burnett Farms

Burnett Farms is family owned and operated. They begin their season with strawberries and will host a u-pick patch. In June the market is in full swing with fresh produce; sweet corn, a variety of green beans, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, cucumbers, melons, onions, fresh cut flowers, honey, country ham, our own beef, etc... all grown on their farm.

• Summit Meats

At a time when lab-created foods, GMO's, preservatives, nitrates, and antibiotics are all staples in mass food production, it is hard to know what we are putting in our bodies at each meal. It is the mission of Summit Meats to offer clean meats, including antibiotic free meats and products that you can enjoy without the fear of all the unhealthy consequences.

 

They handle the processing in the same fashion by educating producers and families on the proper ways of raising animals to ensure a healthy result.