orld-famous setting for the greatest two minutes in sports. Iconic symbol of Kentucky’s homeplace. “We sing one song” – it opens the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs and rings out at the 19th-century mansion Federal Hill , better known as My Old Kentucky Home , containing one of the country’s most complete collections of any historic plantation museum. Let’s talk bourbon. In Louisville, it’s Whiskey Row, the Urban Bourbon Trail and Frazier History Museum . In Bardstown and the surrounding area, aka “Bourbon Capital of the World,” it’s nearly a dozen distilleries, including Heaven Hill, Log Still and Willett . Get your gait on with a tour of Simpsonville’s Kismet Farm , home to American Saddlebreds. Get your tölt on at Léttleiki Icelandics , Shelbyville’s historic farm breeding the pony-sized Icelandic horse. Want a complete picture of Kentucky in one frame? Goshen’s Hermitage Farm is a working thoroughbred horse operation that includes Barn8 farm-to-table restaurant and bourbon bar, gracious accommodations and a botanical garden. Which trail will you take at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest ? “Meditation,” “Edible Garden” or “Forest Giants” – the trail that leads to the genial goliaths Mama Loumari, Little Elina and Little Nis? It’s more straightforward on the Marion County Trail , where you’ll go directly to Maker’s Mark , Limestone Branch Distillery and Kentucky Cooperage . Willett Distillery , Bardstown Locust Grove , Louisville 50 #TravelKY
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