Local city information for Park City, KY

Park City is a city in Barren County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 517 at the 2000 census. It has historically served as a gateway to nearby Mammoth Cave National Park and Diamond Caverns, a privately-owned cave attraction.

Park City is part of the Glasgow, Kentucky Micropolitan Statistical Area.


The city had three other names during its history:

• Three Forks, named in 1827 (with the opening of a post office) for the junction of the Louisville and Nashville Turnpike, the Glasgow Road, and the Bardstown Road;
• '''Bell's Station,''' for the famous Bell's Tavern located on the Mammoth Cave stagecoach road and the Louisville and Nashville Turnpike (the ruins of this tavern still stand after it burned in 1860);
• Glasgow Junction, for its location at a junction between the former Louisville and Nashville Railroad main line and a branch to Glasgow, Kentucky, and also the Mammoth Cave Railroad. This name change took place in 1859.

The name was officially changed to Park City in 1938. This has occasionally caused confusion with nearby Bowling Green, Kentucky, which historically called itself "The Park City"; Bowling Green's daily newspaper still has "Park City" on its front page nameplate.

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