List Of Attractions And Events In Louisville

This is a listing of popular tourist attractions and major recurring events in the Louisville metropolitan area:

ANNUAL FESTIVALS AND EVENTS

Adam Matthews Balloon Festival

Corn Island Storytelling Festival {Link without Title}

Gaslight Festival ( Jeffersontown ), annual event held in September

Germanic heritage festivals: Strassenfest in August and Oktoberfest in October.

Kentucky Bourbon Festival ( Bardstown )

Kentucky Derby Festival , Kentucky 's largest single annual event.

Kentucky Shakespeare Festival

Kentucky State Fair , annual 10-day event held in August at the Kentucky Exposition Center , next to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom

Kentuckiana Pride Festival {Link without Title} , annual events in June in support of LGBT pride and Rights .

Lebowski Fest , a festival for fans of the movie, '' The Big Lebowski ''.

St. James Court Art Show

Starlight Strawberry Festival ( Starlight, Indiana ), annual event held during Memorial Day weekend.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Actors Theatre (''See also Theater In Kentucky '')

Caesars Indiana ( Elizabeth, Indiana )

Fourth Street Live! , a downtown entertainment and shopping complex

The Kentucky Center

The Kentucky Theater

The Louisville Palace

Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom

DISTINCTIVE LOCALES

Old Louisville is the third largest Historic Preservation district in the U.S. and features:

---the highest number of buildings of Victorian Architecture in a U.S. neighborhood.

--- Louisville's Central Park

---St. James Court, famous for the annual St. James Court Art Show .

The Highlands area, which features:

---Distinctive shops and restaurants along Bardstown Road and Baxter Avenue.

--- Cherokee Triangle and Original Highlands historic neighborhoods.

HISTORIC PROPERTIES

Belle Of Louisville , the oldest Mississippi -style Steamboat in operation on the inland waterways of the U.S. (Built 1914 - 1915 in Pittsburgh for service in Memphis as the Idlewild, renamed Avalon in 1948 , purchased by Jefferson County and renamed Belle of Louisville in 1962 .)

Farmington Historic Home

Fort Knox , including the U.S. Bullion Depository and Patton Museum Of Cavalry And Armor (Hardin County)

The Galt House — the famous hotel.

Historic Locust Grove farm, home of George Rogers Clark

My Old Kentucky Home State Park (Bardstown), featuring the Federal Hill mansion (inspiration for Stephen Foster 's '' My Old Kentucky Home '') and Stephen Foster, The Musical {Link without Title} .

Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing {Link without Title}

Seelbach and Brown hotels

Thomas Edison House {Link without Title}

Vogue Theater , a movie theater in St. Matthews closed down in 1998 , known for showing '' The Rocky Horror Picture Show '' for 25 years. Its sign is being refurbished as a historical landmark.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

MUSEUMS

''This list may contain repeats from other sections so that a complete list of Louisville area museums can be shown in one spot.''

Callahan Museum Of The American Printing House For The Blind

Frazier Historical Arms Museum — features historical war weaponry, especially focusing on British and U.S. conflicts

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Kentucky Derby Museum {Link without Title}

Louisville Science Center — features an IMAX theater

Louisville Slugger Museum

Muhammad Ali Center

Old Bardstown Village / )

Patton Museum Of Cavalry And Armor

Speed Art Museum

Louisville also has several important Genealogical collections at The Filson Historical Society , the Sons Of The American Revolution national library and the Louisville Free Public Library.

PARKS AND OTHER OUTDOOR ATTRACTIONS

provides a nice place to relax and have fun amidst the hustle and bustle of the Downtown Area .]]
Louisville is home to a myriad of spacious city parks and forested areas, several designed by Frederick Law Olmsted ; distinctive examples include:

Bernheim Arboretum And Research Forest (Bullitt County)

Bridges to the Past {Link without Title} ( Radcliff )

Cave Hill Cemetery And Arboretum

Central Park

Cherokee Park

E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park

Falls Of The Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area ( Clarksville, Indiana ), featuring the oldest exposed Devonian fossil beds in the United States

Iroquois Park — features a locally popular Amphitheater .

Jefferson Memorial Forest , in southwest Louisville, the largest municipal urban forest in the United States.

Levee Bike Trail

Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy {Link without Title}

Louisville Waterfront Park and Belvedere — features annual Thunder Over Louisville Fireworks and Air show during the Kentucky Derby Festival .

Louisville Zoo

Otter Creek Park ( Brandenburg )

Riverwalk Trail

Seneca Park

Shawnee Park

Tioga Falls Hiking Trail {Link without Title} (Radcliff)

Zachary Taylor National Cemetery

SPORTS-RELATED ATTRACTIONS

Churchill Downs Thoroughbred racetrack and the Kentucky Derby Museum

Louisville Extreme Park

Louisville Slugger Museum

Muhammad Ali Center

Valhalla Golf Club , designed by professional Golfer Jack Nicklaus

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