The gravel/dirt launch ramp at the South end of Loon Pit is still open. It's off Kansas road near the North end of Euler road.

But the water is very shallow in this area and there are weeds around the launch ramp. There is also a lot of coal dust or black muck in this very shallow water. This ramp is probably best suited for launching a canoe or kayak than a boat.

The last time I launched my 15'11 1/2" long boat at this ramp I pulled in too much black goo into my water cooling system and almost ruined my motor. I had to have the water pump impeller replaced and the entire water cooling system flush out. It was not pretty.

But if you keep your motor up and can launch there and get out into deeper water it's possible to launch a smaller boat from this ramp.

I say this now 7/18/16 because the other day when I last went to check out Bluegrass F&W area I noticed that the North End of Loon Pit had the concrete launch ramp blocked off by IDNR. This is where the ramp drops off into a hole at the end of the concrete. So IDNR workers blocked it off with baracades making it off limits to launch at this end of the lake.

I was able to launch my boat at the South end a while back ( about three years ago) with only 2 wheel drive. I was able to get my boat to float off the boat trailer before my back wheels got to deep in the water. And I guess someone put some gravel on top of the mud when they made this small back woods type launch ramp. It does not have any concrete at the South end of Loon. Only the North End of Loon pit has a concrete launch ramp.

All the launch ramps at Blue grass are slippery these days if they are made out of concrete. Nothing has been done out there to control the growth of algae on the concrete ramps from what I've seen. And some of the lakes have more weeds that water. The lakes IMHO look bad this years. Something in the water or soil is causing the algae or water weed to grow out of control all around the edge of some of the pits out there. I'm not sure what's in the water that causes that overgrowth.

Years past the IDNR would treat the water to keep a portion of the weeds in the water. There use to be some water lilies at Bird Dog Pit but I think that when they treated the water to try to kill some of the submergent vegetation they also killed all the water lilies too. I've not seem them growing in that spot at Bird Dog Pit for about 4 or 5 years ago.