Feed Your Hunger . . . for Adventure, Lakes & Nature OUTSIDE . TAKE IT eed a place to burn your adrenaline? Take it outside, underground, around a track, up a cliff – or even onto an ark of Biblical proportions. Wait. What? Noah’s Ark – yes, that Noah – stretches 510 feet long, 85 feet wide and soars 51 feet high into the sky above Williamstown’s gentle hills. One of the largest timber-frame structures in the world, the eye-popping Ark Encounter has three decks of immersive, historically themed exhibits and live entertainment on the surrounding grounds. See a Tibetan yak and ride a camel or donkey at the on-site Ararat Ridge Zoo . Rocket down thousands of feet of zip lines with Screaming Eagle Aerial Adventures . Then go underground to the half-dozen zip lines at Louisville Mega Cavern , the only fully underground zip-line course on the planet. But wait, there’s more! Other adventures in this 100-acre subterranean world beneath the streets (and animal habitats) of the Louisville Zoo include an Underground Bike Park, Electric N Fat Bike behind-the-scenes tour and the Mega Quest aerial ropes challenge course. Back above ground, Bowling Green’s NCM Motorsports Park is all about the hot laps, touring laps, extreme super-car driving adventures and go-karts. Look up! It could be a bird, but chances are it’s a thrill-seeker crossing from bridge to bridge on forested “aerial trails” on a treetop adventure at Levi Jackson State Park in London. Red River Gorge , a favorite place for rock climbing, rappelling, hunting, horseback riding, mountain biking and other adventures not for the faint-hearted. There’s also fi shing, fl ora and fauna, boating, swimming, tubing – even Scuba diving. Bowling Green’s Lost River Cave is the only place in Kentucky you can take an underground boat tour, gliding on what Ripley’s Believe It or Not! claims to be the shortest and deepest river in the world. Woods & Waters Kentucky also has water worlds spilling over with fun. In Daniel Boone National Forest , Morehead’s scenic Cave Run Lake draws boaters, campers, hikers, picnickers and those who want to pursue nothing more strenuous than a little “R&R.” Also within the forest’s rugged 2.1 million acres is kentuckytourism.com 31
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