What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place ... nobody can discover the world for anybody else. Wendell Berry, American Novelist, Poet & Kentuckian " " resources TRAVEL Road trips Carrollton: Settle into a balcony guestroom at General Butler State Resort Park . Spot aquatic wildlife on the Butler Lake Trail . Ride your mountain bike along the Fossil Trail and catch a sunset overlooking the confluence of the Kentucky and Ohio rivers. REGIONAL Augusta/ Bracken County 606-756-2183 augustaky.gov Carrollton/ Carroll County 502-732-7036 visitcarrolltonky.com Fleming County 606-845-1223 flemingkychamber.com Gallatin County 859-567-5691 visitgallatincountyky.com Grant County 859-824-3322 visitgrantky.com Lewis County 606-440-0135 Maysville/ Mason County 606-563-2596 visitmaysvilleky.com Northern Kentucky/ Covington/Florence/ Newport 859-261-4677 meetnky.com Owen County 502-563-5050 facebook.com/ owencountykytourism Pendleton County 859-654-4567 pendletoncountytourism.com Augusta: Next on the agenda: Warsaw: Next, find your cozy retreat in a studio cabin at Smugglers Cove Marina and Campground , where you can spend a relaxing afternoon on a pontoon boat on the Ohio River. Fried green toma-toes, shrimp and grits, and bread pudding — mmm! Dinner is served at Jewell’s on Main . Shop, stroll and drop into the Rosemary Clooney House in its dreamy Riverside Drive setting to see the world’s largest collection of “White Christmas” movie memora-bilia. Tour the country’s most histori-cal spirits site at Kentucky Bourbon Trail stop B. Bird™ Distillery & Baker-Bird Winery® . Maysville: Set out to explore Covington: Head to Mainstrasse Village and munch your way through this storybook setting on a guided food tour. Who’s that green guy in the sky? It’s super-colossal Clive the Alien , spying on earthlings. After a bourbon-blending expe-rience at Kentucky Bourbon Trail stop Wenzel Whiskey , overnight at Hotel Covington . the museums and shops of the 1700s frontier village, historic Old Washington . Need a hearty start to the day? LilJumbo Coffee Company serves the Kitchen Sink (biscuits with gravy and hash). Catch the Maysville Players or a marquee-name concert on stage at the grand Washington Opera House . May's Lick: The next morning, follow the 100-mile Brigadier General Young Memorial Historical Corridor — named for the formerly enslaved hero who became the first African American military attaché to a foreign country and first Black superintendent of a National Park — from his log-cabin birthplace to Camp Nelson National Monument . SCan FOr mOre On northern kentucky river Kentuckytourism.com/NorthernKentuckyRiver 69
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