Prestonsburg

Prestonsburg is a city and the county seat of Floyd County in Daniel Boone Country.

Understand
Prestonsburg was the site of the biggest Civil War battle in eastern Kentucky, at a place called Middle Creek. Even though it's only 14 miles from the next county seat over, Paintsville, in these Appalachian hills the little towns feel rather isolated, and the inhabitants are holding on as their economic mainstay, coal mining, is fading away.

Get in
The remoteness will probably require you to drive here over long stretches of curvy Appalachian roads. Hwy 23 is the main roadway that accesses this area known as the Big Sandy Valley River Valley.