Walk or drive the road making frequent stops to look and listen for birds. It’s a pretty quiet road with barely any traffic.

Neotropical migrants and breeding warblers, vireos and tanagers. 

Wolf Knob is an approximately 9-10 mile forest service road that ends at a closed forest service gate with a grassy road extending a ways beyond it.

The road is in the Jellico area the furthest southeastern portion of the Stearns Ranger District, bordering Tennessee. The Jellico area is split between McCreary and Whitley counties in Kentucky, encompassing the well-known areas of Stephens Knob, Ryan’s Mountain, and Wolf Knob. This area includes Stearns’ only designated old growth which is nearly all contained between Jellico Creek and the Tennessee.