Science Hill, KY

united states

Science Hill is a small Kentucky town of about 650 people in Pulaski County, sitting along US Highway 27 about 15 miles northwest of Somerset. Visitors typically arrive via US 27 from Lexington (90 miles north) or Tennessee to the south, with Lake Cumberland Regional Airport about 20 miles away. The town sits in the Cumberland Plateau foothills with a humid subtropical climate. Science Hill gets its name from a prestigious 19th-century girls' boarding school that once operated here.