Tucked at the edge of the Red River Gorge near Slade, this small zoo holds one of the world's largest venomous snake collections — time your visit for the 1 p.m. venom-extraction demo.
Road trips · Kentucky
Kentucky road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Kentucky — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Happening in Kentucky
Kentucky Derby 2027
Barely two dozen marquee events hit the whole country in a year — and Kentucky has one this May. Roamward builds the trip around it: the scenic route in, the detours worth a slack day, and when rooms sell out.
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Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
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One of the oldest working ferries on the Ohio River, running since the 1790s, this little cable boat shuttles cars across to Ohio in about ten minutes from the pretty town of Augusta.
A former Munfordville mayor hand-built this full-scale, solstice-aligned stone circle in his yard, and his family keeps it open and free — a delightfully strange roadside stop in central Kentucky.
In Mayfield's Maplewood Cemetery stands the "Strange Procession That Never Moves," eighteen 1890s stone statues of one man's family, horse, and dogs — a haunting folk memorial in far-western Kentucky.
Nicknamed the Niagara of the South, this 125-foot-wide curtain of water near Corbin is the only reliable spot in the Western Hemisphere to catch a moonbow under a full moon.
Inside Big South Fork near Stearns, this National Park Service "ghost mine" recreates an abandoned 1937 coal camp with ghostly open-air structures and an audio tour — ride the scenic railway in or hike the gorge.
Worth traveling for
Events that put Kentucky on the calendar.
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