The "fastest two minutes in sports" has turned into two weeks of festive celebration. Race over to the Kentucky Derby Festival for a two-week event commemorating the historic derby. The festival is loaded with more than seventy special events, including the nation's largest firework extravaganza.
Watch the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, a thoroughbred race track in Louisville renowned the world over. The annual event takes place on a one and a quarter-mile track for a race known as the "The Most Exciting Two Minutes of Sports" and is steeped in traditions like drinking ice cold Mint Juleps and women wearing one-of-a-kind fancy hats. The event is one of the most well-known attractions in the city.
You'll treasure Hidden Hollow Orchard and Wildlife Sanctuary, a fresh apple orchard and fifty-acre natural wildlife preserve. Enjoy tasting a bumper crop of unusual heirloom apples and sweet homemade applesauce. See nature's native wildflowers, bluebirds, wild turkeys and deer as you hang around Old Cow Pond brimming with turtles and frogs.
Louisville's friendliest neighborhood tavern is The Back Door. Stop by for a game of pool on one of 6 full size, regulation tables in a spacious room perfect for billiards. Order up a menu favorite like Door Knobs fresh button mushrooms double dipped in beer batter, and drink ice cold import and domestic beers!