Mule rider dies

A woman riding a mule in Land Between the Lakes died at about 1 p.m., Tuesday when she fell from the animal and hit her head on a gravel trail south of Wrangler’s Campground on Trail No. 7.

Rhonda Hogan, 54, of Elizabethtown had camped with her husband and had gone out for an afternoon ride with him, the Paducah Sun reported this morning. Something unknown spooked her mule, which bucked and ran down Wrangler Horse Trail No. 7, throwing her, Trigg County Coroner John Mark Vinson told the Paducah newspaper.

Hogan hit her head on creek gravel lining the trail.

Vinson pronounced Hogan dead at the scene, near Forest Service roads 174 and 353.

Several Crittenden and Livingston county residents regularly use the LBL trails for riding their mules and horses or riding in animal-drawn wagons.