Going to Louisville for a few days. Anything fun to do here besides KFC and bourbon?
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>>2914162It's the gay capital of the region, unironically.Horse races are fun to go to.Historical farms nearby like the ones featured on that Orange Fool video maker showed us. La Grange has a train that runs through the street.Thunder over the Ohio is cool of you're there during that time. The trade grounds have a massive flea market almost everyday.It's a fun place, people are usually pretty nice and easy to make quick friends.There's a bar downtown that has like 5 floors and each floor plays a different kind of music style.
>>2914162Louisville is also known for having a yearly Lebowski fest celebrating the film Big Lebowski up until last year. I think it's over now. They also had a decent hardcore scene that produced Slint and Knocked Loose.Also home to Louisville University, they have a decent football team, you could possibly attend a game if their schedule lines up.Finally they're the home of one of the major Southern Baptist seminaries. So if you want to debate theology you can probably find some people willing to do that.
I found the stuff in nearby Indiana more compelling and wish to return there (marengo cave)Here's what I have on google maps saved for that area:flame run - hot glass art gallery, interestingly they have one side for fused glass and one side for blown and you can commission your own pieces on the spot for reasonable pricesconrad-caldwell house - pretty richardsonian romanesque house you can tour the inside of, haven't been, hope to go38°51'00.8"N 84°47'25.2"W^this is between cincinnati and louisville, closer to the former, but it's a nice bluff view overlooking the Ohio River that you can drive right up to and there's cheap (5$ I think) car camping spots all along the road to it you can pay for via qr code. It's a crappy dirt road and you may want 4wd but it's not that bad - pay attention to gps directions to GET to the park you cannot exactly get from here to there from the west so you will have to go around and the back roads kinda suck (narrow). hartig overlook
If you have a bike, go ride the Parklands of Floyds Fork trail. You can rent a scooter downtown and ride the trail on the waterfront. Definitely walk across the Big Four bridge. Nachbar in germantown is a fun hipster dive bar. There are lots of good breweries downtown. West 6th Nulu is rad. Milewide is another really good one. They have an old school pinball arcade. 3rd Turn Brewing is amazing too and recbar has a cool old school arcade across the street. Definitely go check out the free 21c Museum. The Galt House conservatory is a cool place to check out. It's also free to just walk in. Really good views up there. The top golf in Louisville is really good and relatively cheap compared to most of those places. If you're going around Christmas, there are great pop up xmas bars downtown. Louisville has a good live music scene too. Check out bandsintown to see who's playing while you're there.
>>2914162Any Louisville local remember the music store "Ear-xtacy". It was the embodiment of the 90s.
>>2914261I used to buy records from there any time I was visiting family in Louisville. One of the employees was the fruity guitarist from Elliot and he used to eye-fuck me every time I went in to buy stuff.
>>2914240any breweries with GOOD food?I tried Bar Atomica and the food was just ok. >galt houselike as in ayn rand?
>>2914284I've never had a great meal at a brewery in Louisville. New York Pizza Company on Frankfurt is great. MozzaPi is a little further out, but it's great if you're in that area. The best burger place in town is Jay's Burgers. It's a food truck. The burgers are unreal. I live on the west coast and I prefer Jay's to In&out. For BBQ, I like City BBQ and Mark's feedstore. I love West 6th Nulu beer, and it's a a great brewery, but the food is bad. And don't let anyone tell you to go to the Post for pizza. It was terrible.
>>2914284O'Charleys is great.
>>2914187youre not talking about this are you? Just looks like Etsy-tier booths
>>2914586You forgot to post a pic. But yeah that's kinda what flea markets are. Little homespun trinkets if you are lucky, if not it's temu slop.
>>2914654sorry I think I posted the wrong one, https://www.thefleaoffmarket.org/but that looked like etsy stuff. I like flea markets with actual old shit from back in the day
The Kentucky speedway isn't too far from their either. Same for Mammoth Caves
I went to Louisville last weekend, thanks for all the recommendations, the weather was good until the rains came.
>>2916651Louisville has notoriously bad weather. The rank near the bottom of the US in like every category for weather, air quality, wild temperature swings and natural disasters. What did you end up doing?
>>2916799The rain was due to the hurricane that came up from the Gulf, before that it was warm and sunny.I went to the Big 4 Bridge, ate some local bbq a this called Service station, drove around Old Louisville looking at the old homes, went over to Germantown, checked out downtown. But part of the reason I was there was for work so i didnt have as much free time as I wanted
>>2916849It was nice seeing so many people out on bikes or just walking across that bridge, its pretty long
>>2916849>drove around Old Louisville looking at the old homeswhich streets are best? It's hard to figure out when you aren't from a place which exact areas have the best old mansions. >>2916853I wanna shout "yoga pant slut!" at those whores.
>>2916909It seems like they're all congregated in one area, so pick one of the N/S streets and start walking
>>2916925>historic area is ruined by an interstatecringeusually I just drive and then get out to snap photos of houses I likeWheeling WV had some really interesting old houses - like older than usual cuz its on the Ohio River so it could be settled earlier than most frontier-places usually Italianate is as old as it gets but these were maybe 1840-1850 vintage is my guess - really distinctive facades. Too bad Wheeling kinda is disappointing overall - it's a cool location and has a great bridge you can walk across to get good pictures of the Ohio River - esp if its full.
>>2916926yeah in the 1950s-60s preserving old buildings wasnt on anyone's mind, it was all about NEW NEW NEW
Go to the caves. Best shit ever. You will have to drive a bit but cave city is awesome.
>>2917002If you're into outdoors stuff, there are also some really good rivers near Louisville where you can rent a Kayak. They do shuttles from the end back to the start. Elkhorn and the Blue River are both good. Floyds Fork is fun, but there's no shuttle.
>>2917152>Floyds Fork Breathlessly beautiful landscape there
