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• Visit the Kentucky Horse Park, a working horse farm in Lexington. Enjoy an educational look at the state's equestrian history, then watch films about horseracing and breeding, and demonstrations of horseshoeing and harness making. Tour the nearby International Museum of the Horse and the American Saddle Horse Museum (website: www.imh.org).
• See the Falls of the Ohio State Park (website: www.fallsoftheohio.org), where visitors can walk onto the world's largest exposed Devonian fossil bed.
• Tour Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (website: www.shakervillageky.org). Members of the 19th-century Shaker religious sect lived a simple life here. Today visitors can tour their 2,024-hectare (5,000-acre) farm and living history museum.
• Travel to Harrodsburg, the oldest permanent English settlement west of the Alleghenies. Old Fort Harrod State Park contains part of the replica 1774 fort. Actors dressed in 18th-century costume demonstrate skills, such as blacksmithing and quilting (website: http://parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/fh).
• Hike, fish, trailride and view nature in her majesty at Western Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes, a National Recreation Area. The peninsula is surrounded by Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley (website: www.kentuckylake.com).
• Visit Hodgenville, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's Boyhood Home (website: www.nps.gov/liho) is a reproduction cabin located on the original site where he lived until he was eight years old. The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (website: www.nps.gov/abli) has 56 steps, one for each year of his life.
• Tour the National Corvette Museum (website: www.corvettemuseum.com) in Bowling Green, home to one of America's best known sports cars. Tours of the corvette assembly plant are also available.
• Follow the Stars of Country Music Highway US-23 and visit the birthplaces of country music and bluegrass stars Patty Loveless, Dwight Yoakam, Loretta Lynn, the Judds and Billy Ray Cyrus. See Loretta Lynn memorabilia at the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum (website: www.kingdomcome.org/museum) in Benham.
• Explore the vast Daniel Boone National Forest (website: www.fs.fed.us/r8/boone), with its magnificent Red River Gorge that runs through the entire region. Two of Kentucky's most beautiful lakes, Cave Run Lake and Laurel River Lake, lie at each end of the forest.
• Go trailriding in Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (website: www.nps.gov/biso), a national park wilderness straddling the Kentucky-Tennessee border.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
• See the Falls of the Ohio State Park (website: www.fallsoftheohio.org), where visitors can walk onto the world's largest exposed Devonian fossil bed.
• Tour Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (website: www.shakervillageky.org). Members of the 19th-century Shaker religious sect lived a simple life here. Today visitors can tour their 2,024-hectare (5,000-acre) farm and living history museum.
• Travel to Harrodsburg, the oldest permanent English settlement west of the Alleghenies. Old Fort Harrod State Park contains part of the replica 1774 fort. Actors dressed in 18th-century costume demonstrate skills, such as blacksmithing and quilting (website: http://parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/fh).
• Hike, fish, trailride and view nature in her majesty at Western Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes, a National Recreation Area. The peninsula is surrounded by Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley (website: www.kentuckylake.com).
• Visit Hodgenville, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's Boyhood Home (website: www.nps.gov/liho) is a reproduction cabin located on the original site where he lived until he was eight years old. The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (website: www.nps.gov/abli) has 56 steps, one for each year of his life.
• Tour the National Corvette Museum (website: www.corvettemuseum.com) in Bowling Green, home to one of America's best known sports cars. Tours of the corvette assembly plant are also available.
• Follow the Stars of Country Music Highway US-23 and visit the birthplaces of country music and bluegrass stars Patty Loveless, Dwight Yoakam, Loretta Lynn, the Judds and Billy Ray Cyrus. See Loretta Lynn memorabilia at the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum (website: www.kingdomcome.org/museum) in Benham.
• Explore the vast Daniel Boone National Forest (website: www.fs.fed.us/r8/boone), with its magnificent Red River Gorge that runs through the entire region. Two of Kentucky's most beautiful lakes, Cave Run Lake and Laurel River Lake, lie at each end of the forest.
• Go trailriding in Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (website: www.nps.gov/biso), a national park wilderness straddling the Kentucky-Tennessee border.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.