Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve

Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve is located in both Garrard and Jessamine county Kentucky and protects a section of the Kentucky River Palisades.

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.

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