You’ll need a place to stay while you’re in Louisville and I know the perfect place.
1840 Tucker House Bed and Breakfast
2406 Tucker Station Rd.
(802) 297-8007
Tucker House is a beautifully restored 120 year old house that has everything you need for a stay in Louisville. The house sits on five acres of gardens to view, woods to explore, a lake and a heated swimming pool. You’ll have your own bathroom, thick fluffy robes and towels to use. Rooms have hair dryers, make-up mirrors, wireless internet, and satellite television.
Now that your settled in let’s go to the Louisville Zoo it takes up 134 acres and has over 1,400 different animals including Louie, a rare white alligator. Next the Sky Trail High Adventure a two-story high challenge course it includes 22 different challenges balance beams, rope ladders, a swinging bridge, and a cargo net.
Louisville Zoo
1100 Trevilian Way
(502) 459-2181
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory is where to go if you love baseball or you just like to know how things are made, take the tour. You’ll learn how the famous Louisville Slugger bats are made, and you can swing the very same bats that Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth used.
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
800 West Main St.
(877) 775-8443
Visit the Tom Sawyer State Park for some traditional outdoor fun, picnic shelters, hiking trails, tennis courts, an Olympic size pool, plus some very special features.
The BMX track is one of the United States best and it’s where the National BMX Grand Championships are held each year. An archery range with safety fence, bow holders, new targets with distances of 10, 20, 30, and 40 yards. A model plane airfield, 400 foot long for members of the Tom Sawyer Model Aircraft Association. Astronomy Center holds monthly star parties, bring your own telescope or use the parks, either way it’s awesome.
E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park
3000 Fryers Hill Rd.
(502) 429-3280
Every year the Belle of Louisville and the Belle of Cincinnati battle it out in the Great Steamboat Race, as part of the Kentucky Derby Festival. The race consists of two boat crews competing to finish obstacle courses and other task such as the Line Toss, Monkey Fist Toss, musical shows, and whiskey barrel pick-up for points. The boat with the most points wins the race, but the real winners are the spectators every year.
The Great Steamboat Race
Starting Point 4th Street Warf
Louisville, KY