Escape to the Southeast - 2009-10 Edition

KENTUCKY
Uniquely Kentucky

Horses, bourbon, lakes, barbeque, small towns and big cities - Kentucky is a wonderful blend of sites, sounds, tastes and experiences. Only in Kentucky can you experience the Bourbon Trail and a Hot Brown sandwich. Relaxing to Bluegrass music and the arts more your style? We’ve got plenty of that too. Berea is the arts capitol of the state, but fine artisan crafts can be found from one end of the state to the other. Beginning in Paducah, home of the National Quilt Museum weaving clear across the state to the Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails in the eastern mountains of the Commonwealth, visitors can enjoy a fine array of performing, cultural, and fine arts.

Kentucky can claim many superlatives: Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world; the only regularly occurring Moon Bow in the Western hemisphere takes place at Cumberland Falls; Breaks Interstate Park is the “Grand Canyon of the South” while “Gettysburg of the West,” took place at Perryville Battlefield. And let’s not forget

“the most exciting two-minutes in sports,” — the Kentucky Derby!

In 2010, Kentucky will host the largest equine sporting event ever held in the United States when the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are held at the Kentucky

And let’s not forget
“the most exciting
two-minutes in sports,”–
the Kentucky Derby!

Horse Park in Lexington. The Games will be the world championships for eight equestrian events, with athletes from more than 100 countries competing.

The Kentucky Horse Park is the only park of its kind in the world, part working horse farm, part educational theme park and part equine competition facility. Because of its array of competition facilities the Horse Park was chosen to be the first site outside of Europe to host the prestigious World Equestrian Games.