[2] Once longer, due to various construction it now remains between Flaget Avenue and Broadway, directly across from the Bardstown Civil War Museum.

It was due to this importance that both the Kentucky legislature and the United States Congress paid for its improvements prior to 1800.

[6] The Cobblestone Path lies on top of a bluff created by Stewart's Creek Towne Branch's deep canyon, the other side of which rests My Old Kentucky Home State Park.

The dolomite limestone used to cobble the pathway are not uniformly shaped, and range from six to ten inches (254 mm) thick.

The top portion of the path was long a popular picnic spot from the 1870s to 1900, and gained the name Lovers Leap.