Hazel Patch, Camp Wildcat, and Sheltowee Trace - Mile 156 - 154

September 11: Hazel Patch is a historic village settled in 1775 on a Rockcastle River tributary and today is accessible from I-75 (exit 49). The Wilderness Road, a pioneer route through the Appalachians, here spawned two new routes into the Bluegrass: Boone's Trace (northeast to Fort Boonesboro) and Skagg's Trace (west to Crab Orchard). Camp Wildcat is a Civil War battle site along the Wilderness Road with excellent site interpretation. Hoosier Knob was held by the 33rd Indiana Infantry and used the geography of the area to prevent northward movement along the Wilderness Road by Confederate troops. The Sheltowee Trace here is quad track to improved gravel roads. Near mile 151, the trail peels off to some twisty single and quadtrack. The area is mtb and atv with plenty of ridge quadtracks.