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A sunrise in Beckley Creek Park along a black wood fence, and green pasture with park benches and trees.

Beckley Creek Park, one of five interconnected nature parks (known as the Parklands) that stretch along Floyds Fork, a 62-mile long tributary of the Salt River on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County. Including Beckley, the five parks are: Pope Lick, Broad Run, Turkey Run, and the Strand, comprising more than 4,000 acres. After Jefferson Memorial Forest, it is the largest nature park in Louisville.

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Saltair Route , also known as the Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway or SLGW, was founded in 1891. At 16 miles long its primary purpose was to bring tourist traffic to the Saltair Beach Resort on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, and freight to mining areas around the edge of the lake, including Morton Salt in Tooele County, Utah

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A misty Kentucky River sunrise at Clays Ferry. The ferry, starting in 1798 provided a crossing point on the Kentucky River between Madison and Fayette Counties, and the cities of Lexington and Richmond.

Clays Ferry is named after one of its first owners, Green Clay, who was the father of the future politician, abolitionist, and ambassador to Russia, Cassius Marcellus Clay, who worked with Abraham Lincoln during his presidency. Cassius’ name is easily recognized by students of American history for the connection to Muhammad Ali’s father, and Ali himself.