Grider Hill Marina
From the beginning, Grider Hill Marina had a plan to build the most convenient and finest
marina-resort in Kentucky. So with an eye for taste and much attention to detail,
Grider Hill was opened for business in the spring of 1951 under ownership of
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Sloan and three of their sons.
Grider Hill is situated in the most rugged mountainous part of Lake Cumberland.
It is located closer to massive Wolf Creek Dam and Seventy Six Falls than any
other marina on the lake being only four miles from each. There are ten major
streams that feed Indian Creek within 3 miles of the marina. When the Corps
of Engineers dammed the Cumberland River in 1950, they created a boating
and fishing paradise. Twisting like a Chinese Dragon, the jade green waters of
Lake Cumberland coil beneath steep hills carpeted with conifer and hardwood
forests. Even with hordes of weekend boats plying the main channel, the lake’s
hundreds of twisting coves and inlets are nearly deserted.
The two-hundred fifty-eight foot tall Wolf Creek Dam impounds Lake Cumberland,
which has a surface area of over 50,000 acres and is 101 miles long. And what a
lake! Brimful of lively, scrappin’ fish, broad enough to take a thousand times as
many boaters as will ever skim across it, rimmed by scores of coves and hollows
along its 1,255 miles of shoreline, and sheltered by tree covered mountains that
protect it from the weather’s worst, Lake Cumberland has made Kentucky’s
Southern Cumberlands the ideal vacation region for all mid-America.
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