Central Kentucky Tourism on KentuckyBeautiful.com Kentucky Central Tourism Region - your Central Kentucky Travel Guide to Vacations, Attractions and Events. Includes the Kentucky Derby Region, and the Caves, Lakes, and Corvettes Region, and Southern Lakes Region.
Hidden River Cave Museum - Horse Cave, Kentucky
The American Cave Museum and Hidden River Cave will fill your day with exciting and informative lessons of the nature of caves and how they impact our lives. Take the self guided tour of the American Cave Museum. There are two floors of exhibits dealing with caves, groundwater and pollution. Then you will take the guided tour 150 feet underground to see the Hidden River Cave.
Bluegrass Heritage Museum - Winchester, Kentucky
Take a trip to the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky and you will see the beauty of rolling grassland, wood and stone fences, horses and some of the most beautiful country anyplace. There is so much history in the area that you will truly have the opportunity to learn a great deal while enjoying the beauty. The National Geographic named the Bluegrass Region one of America's 50 must-see places so don't miss the opportunity to visit.
Take a Tour on the Heaven Hill Distilleries Trolley in Bardstown, KY. Bardstown, Kentucky is known for its legendary bourbon, as well as the famous Beam family-run distillery named Heaven Hill. The Heaven Hill Distilleries Trolley provides a historical tour of all points of historic interest in downtown Bardstown. The trolley was custom designed to look like a historical replica of what may once have traveled the streets. Beginning in 2004, the trolley travels on a daily basis taking tourists on historic and fun tours of the city. Weddings, parties, and special groups may sometimes also rent the trolley for a fun form of transportation.
On your next visit to Louisville, Kentucky, spend a day at the Speed Art Museum. This is a huge art museum with an expansive collection of more than 12,000 pieces of artwork. The Speed Art Museum displays items from its own collection as well as hosting temporary exhibits featuring art from other museums around the world.
Old Bardstown Village in Nelson County, Kentucky is a great place to visit if you love history and exploring museums. In addition to a re-created frontier village, there are several museums located on site along Museum Row, including the fourth largest Civil War Museum in the United States.
Mammoth Cave National Park in south central Kentucky is a beautiful and fascinating place. The Park preserves the longest cave system in the world, and visitors can explore this spectacular cave in their choice of cave tours. In addition to touring the cave, visitors can enjoy their favorite outdoors activities in the beautiful Green River valley above ground.
A visit to Kentucky isn’t complete until you spend some time with horses, and the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington is one of the best places to do so. At the Kentucky Horse Park, you can explore museums, learn about and see nearly 50 breeds of horses, take a horse drawn trolley ride, and of course, ride horses.
If you’ve always dreamed of traveling to Australia, but you happen to be in south-central Kentucky, Kentucky Down Under is an ideal place to enjoy a compromise. Kentucky Down Under is located between Nashville, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky and gives visitors a chance to meet and interact with some of Australia’s most intriguing animals. At the Camp Corroboree exhibit, visitors can also learn about Aboriginal culture.
