<P> Approximately 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Boonesborough it is joined by the Red River . Approximately 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Boonesborough it is joined by Silver Creek . At High Bridge, it is joined by the Dix River . At Frankfort, it is joined by Benson Creek . Approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of Frankfort, it is joined by Elkhorn Creek . </P> <P> Between Clays Ferry in Madison County and Frankfort, the river passes through the Kentucky River Palisades, a series of dramatic steep gorges approximately 100 miles (160 km) in length . </P> <P> It continues on until it flows into the Ohio River at Carrollton in Carroll County . </P> <P> The North Fork Kentucky River is approximately 168 miles (270 km) long . It rises on the western side of Pine Mountain, in the Appalachians of extreme southeastern Kentucky, in eastern Letcher County near the Virginia state line in Payne Gap, near the intersection of US 23 and US 119 . It flows generally northwest, in a winding course through the mountainous Cumberland Plateau, past Whitesburg, Hazard and Jackson . It receives Rockhouse Creek at Blackey near its source . Approximately 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Hazard, it receives the Carr Fork . It receives Troublesome Creek at Haddix, southeast of Jackson . Three miles upstream from its confluence with the South Fork, it receives the Middle Fork . It joins the South Fork to form the Kentucky at Beattyville . </P>

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