Corvette owners, from New York to Wyoming to the Dakotas and everywhere in between, began the second leg of the Kentucky One Lap Tour on Tuesday, with some 25 American made sports cars traveling in parade formation across Kentucky.

A joint fundraiser between the Kentucky State Police operated Trooper Island Youth Camp and the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the annual event allows Corvette owners to tour Kentucky while being escorted by a Kentucky State Police cruiser marked Corvette, driven by KSP Master Trooper Jonathan Biven.

Biven is the Director at Trooper Island Youth Camp, a free summer camp operated by the KSP located in Clinton County, on Dale Hollow Lake.  Trooper Island Youth Camp serves about 700 boys and girls from across Kentucky for a week-long camping experience, with most of the campers being underprivileged and at-risk youth, who likely would otherwise not have the opportunity to attend summer camp.

Trooper Island is operated solely through fundraising efforts held across the state of Kentucky, such as this Kentucky One Lap Tour.

In appreciation to the Clinton County Tourism Commission, Trooper Biven detoured the group from Ky. 90, into Albany, around the Clinton County Courthouse Square, giving the participants an up-close look at our town and a real feel for small-town America, before heading back to Ky. 90 as they drive toward eastern Kentucky and the Natural Bridge region and eventually return to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.

Last week’s One Lap tour through Albany was also assisted by Albany Police Department and the Clinton County Sheriff’s Department.