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Patty Craig: A Slice of Time

With warm weather and the end of the school year, many will be searching for entertainment destinations. My youngest daughter, a seventh-grade teacher, asked her students to do some research and identify places in Kentucky to visit. Their responses included a wide variety of destinations.

The Kentucky destinations identified by these students included the following:

Mammoth Cave

Corvette Museum

Beech Bend Park

Louisville Zoo

Louisville Slugger Museum

Churchill Downs

Lost River Cave

Newport Aquarium

Cumberland Falls

Dinosaur World

Kentucky Derby/Kentucky Derby Museum

Red River Gorge

Jump Air Zone

Nolin Lake

Creation Museum

Kentucky Kingdom

Louisville Mega Cavern (Student said it is the world’s only zip line course that is fully underground.)

Hot Rods Park

Kentucky Down Under

Kentucky Speedway

Rough River

Historic Railpark & Museum

Land Between the Lakes

Cedar Ridge Speedway

Big Four Bridge

Chaney’s Dairy Barn

Beech Bend Raceway

Rupp Arena for a Kentucky Wildcats basketball game

Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park

Smothers Park

Kentucky Splash & Waterpark

Bernheim Forest

Fraizer’s Kentucky History Museum

The Ark Encounter

Lake Malone

Greenwood Mall

Blue Holler Off Road Park

Daniel Boone National Forest

Kentucky State Fair

Lake Barkley

Pennyrile State Park & Resort

Mary Todd Lincoln House

Octagon Hall

Kentucky State Capitol

Fort Knox

Abraham Lincoln’s Birthplace

Kentucky Museum

Vent Haven Museum

Southern Lanes

Aviation Heritage Park

Barren River Lake

Kentucky Science Center

Guntown Mountain

Purple People Bridge

Muhammad Ali Center

Speed Art Museum

Catfish Festival

Great American Dollhouse Museum

Kentucky Folk Art Center

Gregory’s Lake

Hidden Valley Golf Course

Fountain Square Park

Bluegrass Region Tour

Bluegrass Scenic Railroad Museum

Boone Creek Gorge Zipline Tour

Diamond Lake

Big South Fork Scenic Railway

Malibu Jacks

Fort Boonesborough State Park

Pennyrile Battlefield State Historic Site

Kentucky Reptile Zoo

Black Mountain

Eagle Falls

Roland Bland Park

Kentucky Horse Park

Shanty Hollow

Lake Diamond Caverns

Cave Run Lake

Patti’s 1880’s Settlement

Annual International Festival in Bowling Green

Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area

First Lincoln Memorial

Cherokee Park

Green River Lake

Belle of Louisville

Cumberland Gap National Historic Park

Boone Creek (zip lining)

Freeman Lake Park

Jackson’s Orchard

Big Bone Lick State Park

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Covington

Bowling Green Skate Box

Wildcat Off-road Park

Ralphie’s Fun Center

Shaker Village

Flood Wall Murals

Bill Monroe Homeplace

Lake Venus

USS Sachem Ruins

Levi Jackson State Park, Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park near London

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

SkyPac

Louisville Antique Firearm shooting with an expert instructor

Crystal Onyx Cave

Conrad-Caldwell House Museum

Women’s Civil War Museum

Reid’s Orchard

Axtel Campground

Bill Monroe Museum

Panther Creek Park

Blanton Forest State Nature Preserve

The Parklands

Keeneland

Kentucky Bourbon Trail

SomerSplash

Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History

Lexington Griffin Gate Marriott Golf Resort & Spa

National Quilt Museum

These students did a great job of identifying a variety of places to visit in our state. I would enjoy going to some of them over a period of time. And the summer months provide an opportunity for us to choose a destination – just for the fun of it.

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