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Bourbon, Glass and Bluegrass with Class
Bourbon Trail
Bullitt County and Jim Beam American Outpost are your start to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. You can tour the Beam Family home, walk the distillery grounds, and learn about the fascinating art of bourbon making and the Beam family history. From moonshine to modern manufacturing, you will get a new appreciation for our nation’s only native spirit. You can even try a sip.
Travel just a few miles up the road and Four Roses Distillery awaits with a unique tour of their warehousing and bottling operation. Get a new appreciation for the aging process as you see the different colors that time gradually adds to the originally clear whiskey.
Kentucky Culture Shock
While you’re sipping, you will want to try our newly opened award-winning wineries. Wight-Meyer Winery has a beautiful mature vineyard tucked away in the rolling hills of central Kentucky. If you want to see a vineyard in its infancy, look no further than Brooks Hill Winery. Newly planted in 2008, you may be interested in an annual visit to the vineyard to watch its growth. Both offer a large array of wonderful wines as well as indoor and outdoor tasting areas with ambience conducive to a relaxing afternoon or evening.
Hawks View Gallery offers visitors the opportunity to get up close and personal while artisans make hand-blown glass artwork. After your date with the artisans, you can take some time to shop in their unique boutique and retail area. Last, but certainly not least, you must dine at The Café; which offers a full menu for lunch and dinner.
If it's music that you are looking for, dance on down to the Shepherdsville Music Show. You can enjoy bluegrass Friday nights and country music Saturday nights. The Junction Jamboree is also a favorite stop for music lovers from miles around.
Family Fun
Bullitt County is also the home to a 16,000-acre nature preserve with more than 15 miles of marked hiking trails. Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest is the official arboretum of the state of Kentucky. While at Bernheim, check out the Legends and Lore Trail. On this trail you will hear stories such as one about the Serviceberry Tree—so named because it is the first tree to bloom when spring comes to Kentucky. (These flowers would let the preachers know they could finally get about to perform services in the hills and hollows that had been blocked off by winter freezes.) The Arboretum's new 6,000-square-foot Visitor Center is an A.I.A and LEED award-winning sustainable green building—one of the greenest in the central U.S. Check out their website, www.Bernheim.org, for their many events and programs. Don’t forget to take a walk among the branches on their new Canopy Tree Walk, which is handicap-accessible and senior-friendly.
If a weekend golf outing is your pleasure, try our new 18-hole championship golf course at Heritage Hill. Former Jack Nicklaus associate Doug Beach planned the 7,100-yard layout to be a challenge for all abilities while remaining fun to play. The golf course sports bent grass greens, zoysia tees and fairways.
Get your motor running at Kart Kountry. Chronological age makes no difference on the nation’s longest go-cart track. Add their newly remodeled putt-putt golf course, batting cages, bumper boats and newly expanded arcade with trampoline basketball, and you have the makings for a day or evening you won’t soon forget.
Take your pick of history, culture, sport or amusement—all of these can be found just 15 minutes north in Louisville. Enjoy sites from the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory to the Frasier Historical Arms Museum, or the Muhammad Ali Center to the Kentucky Derby Museum at the world-famous Churchill Downs. And don’t forget the thrills of Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom.
Shopping
Enjoy a day of shopping at Zappo’s 10,000-square-foot “true” shoe outlet, a real-deal outlet store. Enjoy up to 70% off regular retail, with all the major brands as well as designer names. Nearby, the House of Quilts outlet is a great place to find that special quilt or Donna Sharp purse at warehouse prices. The World's Most Awesome Flea Market, Lure De Flea, and several antiques stores will give the phrase “shop 'til you drop” a whole new meaning.
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