Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve

View of the inaccessible Jessamine county section.

Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve is located in both Garrard and Jessamine county Kentucky and protects a section of the Kentucky River Palisades. The preserve is owned by the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission, and encompasses 880 acres (3.6 km²) of cliffs, bluffs, and bottomland. In 2007, the Kentucky State Parks announced the purchase of 90 acres (360,000 m2) adjacent to Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve for the creation of the new Palisades State Park

The Palisades harbor many rare species for the Bluegrass due to the unusual landscape. The state endangered plants found on Tom Dorman's cliffs are starry cleft phlox (Phlox bifida var. stellaria), Eggleston's violet (Viola egglestonii), and tufted hair-grass (Deschampsia cespitosa); the latter being one of only two populations known in the state. The plants listed as state threatened found here are Kentucky viburnum (Viburnum molle) and False melic (Schizachne purpurascens). The rare Yellowwood tree is also found in this preserve.

This preserve is open to the public. It features a strenuous two mile (3 km) loop following an old stage coach route to the river.

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Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve

Protected areas of Kentucky

Federal

National Parks	Mammoth Cave

National Historical Parks	Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Cumberland Gap

NPS National Recreation Areas	Big South Fork

National Military Park	Fort Donelson National Battlefield

National Forests	Daniel Boone George Washington and Jefferson

USFS National Recreation Areas	Land Between the Lakes

National Wildlife Refuges	Clarks River Ohio River Islands Reelfoot

State

State Resort Parks	Barren River Lake Buckhorn Lake Blue Licks Battlefield Carter Caves Cumberland Falls Dale Hollow Lake General Butler Greenbo Lake Jenny Wiley Kenlake Kentucky Dam Village Lake Barkley Lake Cumberland Natural Bridge Pennyrile Forest Pine Mountain Rough River Dam

State Historic Sites	Big Bone Lick Boone Station Butler-Turpin House Dr. Thomas Walker Isaac Shelby Cemetery Jefferson Davis Old Mulkey Meetinghouse Perryville Battlefield Waveland White Hall Wickliffe Mounds William Whitley House

State Recreation Parks	Carr Creek Columbus-Belmont Dawkins Line Rail Trail E. P. "Tom" Sawyer Fishtrap Lake Fort Boonesborough General Burnside Grayson Lake Green River Lake John James Audubon Kincaid Lake Kingdom Come Lake Malone Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Lincoln Homestead Mineral Mound My Old Kentucky Home Nolin Lake Old Fort Harrod Paintsville Lake Pine Mountain Trail Taylorsville Lake Yatesville Lake

State Forests	Dewey Lake Kentenia Kentucky Ridge Knobs Olympia Pennyrile Tygarts

State Nature Preserves	Axe Lake Swamp Bad Branch Falls Brigadoon Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns Beargrass Creek Blackacre Blue Licks Jesse Stuart JJ Audubon Natural Bridge Six Mile Island Tom Dorman

Other	Breaks Interstate Park Kentucky Horse Park

Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission

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