Cassidy Cemetery - FS 337

Trail Overview

Cassidy Cemetery Road (FS 337) is a dirt-gravel forest service road through the center-west Kentucky section, Kentucky Lake side, of the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. The FS 337 spur off to the west from a hard bend in the FS 141 and has two entry points, forming a triangular intersection with trees in the center. The road rests on top of the ridge north of the Savells Branch Creek (and the unnamed cove this creek drains into), traversing a gravel road that has faded to dirt in several spots. The track has subtle elevation changes, but overall, it climbs slightly uphill to the Cassidy Cemetery, which rests on a spine peak of the ridge line. There is a spacious turnaround lot at the cemetery where users can turn around and head back out the way they entered. Also at this turnaround is a gate where the FS 337 continued north, ultimately west towards Kentucky Lake; it is publicly accessible on foot, but is not (motorized) MVUM-sanctioned. If following this western section of FS 337 for 600 feet, this section intersects and runs parallel with the North-South hiking trail for 0.25 mile, before splitting. When hiking just the FS 337, it will end at the Savell's Cemetery, right at 1 mile from the closed gate.

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Difficulty

Cassidy Cemetery is given a base rating of 1/10, only having spots in the gravel road that fade to dirt, other mild erosion, and subtle elevation changes over the track. It is safe to expect all the gravel road complications, such as mounding, washboarding, and potholes. Difficulty could increase in heavy use, or times of wet and inclement conditions, but would likely always return to a 1/10 base rating, either naturally or after being mended. One spot along this road showed signs that the US Forest Service has done repairs to this road before, using 2-inch minus chat to fill water collection holes.

History

The FS 337 is home to two cemeteries, the Cassidy, located center-east, and the Savells on the far west endpoint. Cassidy Cemetery is the final resting place for 19 people who lived from 1857 to 2024. Savells Cemetery is the final resting place for over 75 people who lived from 1818-2007. Please respect those who came before us, leave the Cemeteries as they were or better than you found them. --- When looking at an old 1936 Topo of Fenton, Kentucky, the road that is the modern (2025) MVUM-sanctioned FS 337 ending at the Cassidy Cemetery was present in the same location, featuring homes along it, with other small roads along the FS 141 forming a little community of spread out homesteads. This same 1936 map did not feature the current non-MVUM-sanctioned track going to Savells Cemetery, rather the road used to go west in its place was further south down in the bottoms near the Savells Branch Creek, and ran south of the Savells Cemetery, ultimately ending on the east bank of the Tennessee River, this road disappeared when the Kentucky Lake waters took over the Savells Branch Creek bottoms. It wasn't until the 2016 edition of the Fenton, Kentucky, Topo, that this western ridge portion of the FS 337 showed up, suggesting it has always been there for cemetery access, kept hush-hush and likely never publicly known or MVUM-sanctioned, or had been non-existent, rather was more recently made, and gated roughly as soon as it was blazed to the Savells Cemetery. Documented by Christopher Menz 12/2025.

Technical Rating

Cassidy Cemetery - FS 337 can be accessed by the following ride types:

• High-Clearance 4x4
• SUV