Jeffers Bend Recreation Area and Environmental Center is located near downtown Hopkinsville, Kentucky off Highway 41A North at the end of Metcalfe Lane. Jeffers Bend consists of 40-acres of grassland, a 1-acre lake, 2.7 miles of hiking and biking trails, and six buildings which once housed the old Hopkinsville Water Treatment Plant.
The Pennyrile Resource Conservation and Development Council formed the North Fork Little River 
Committee in 1990. Mayor Wally Bryan, being aware of the NFLRC efforts to increase recreation and tourism activities along the river, in the spring of 1995, convened a meeting to talk about saving the old Hopkinsville Water Treatment Plant from demolition for environmental education activities. In August 1997, the groups agreed that the water treatment plant should be saved and developed in memory of former Hopkinsville Mayor, Sherrill L. Jeffers.
From 2000 to 2002, the Pennyrile Resource Conservation and Development Council secured money from
various sources totaling $100,400 in order for Gary Burks Construction to install 8,200 feet of compacted gravel trail. A gravel parking lot was installed in 2003. TEA-21 federal money, to be matched on an 80/20 basis by the City of Hopkinsville, was then secured in order to construct about two miles of compacted gravel trails along North Fork of Little River, CSX Railroad, and Metcalfe Lane at Jeffers Bend Environmental Center.
The trails at Jeffers Bend are suitable for hiking and biking, and the main loop follows alongside the North Fork of the Little River through open fields and woodlands. There are opportunities for fishing, canoeing and bird watching along the trails. The main trail actually heads west out of Jeffers Bend alongside Metcalf Lane in order to tie in with the Hopkinsville Greenway behind the Riverside Cemetery; however, the trail alongside Metcalf Lane is barely distinguishable for lack of maintenance.
