Great Southern Escape: Kentucky

Visiting the Bluegrass State? Our travel editors recommend their favorite Kentucky restaurants, getaways, and activities for your vacation.

Kentucky's Bourbon Country

Dive barrel-first into the spirit of Kentucky with this ultimate guide to Bourbon Country in all its fiery fall splendor.

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Bourbon Country

Crisscross central Kentucky to tour seven distilleries of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail (the eighth, the Historic Tom Moore Distillery―home of 1792 Ridgemont Reserve―wasn’t open for tours at the time). Whether you sample the wares or not, you’ll pass through swaths of land kissed by God as you travel from one to another. And you’ll never meet a more colorful cast of honest-to-goodness characters.