This historic trail follows Beaver Creek through the present-day town of Frenchburg, the Licking River through the hollows of what is now Cave Run Lake, then along Triplett Creek, then the Soldier Branch of Tygarts Creek.

At Olive Hill, the trail either continues up Tygarts Creek to the Ohio River, or trails farther east and picks up the Little Sandy River south of Grayson, and follows the Little Sandy to the Ohio River. This is the trail that the retreating Morgan's Station Raiders used in April 1793, and following either waterway allows a rapid and easily followed transit to the Ohio River.

The trail between Morgan's Station and the Ohio River offered the Warriors Path traveler an alternative route to the Ohio River several miles upstream of Lower Shawneetown. The Little Sandy River is the last significant waterway upstream of Lower Shawneetown before the Big Sandy River. Tygarts Creek was a useful trail through the hills which dominate eastern Kentucky, although its water flow is usually insufficient to enable travel by canoe for any distance.

The Little Sandy River, in contrast, draws its water from a longer and broader catchment area and its waters easily support travel by canoe. Grayson was a site of pre-contact habitation, no doubt in part due to its proximity to the river, but also because of the expanse of flat bottomland to its north (a rarity in this part of east Kentucky. Although the Little Sandy joins the Ohio River several miles to the east of the Scioto River, it would have been a viable alternative to packing trade goods over the length of the Flemingsburg plain, particularly when traveling from a broad area south, east, and west of the Olive Hill - Grayson area.

Slate Creek to Ohio River Trail Map