KENTUCKY BUCKET LIST

An Extensive KY Bucket List

My aunt gave me this bucket list that her friend made. It's an extensive list of fun activities around the Bluegrass State. To download a PDF of the list, go HERE.

Complete	No	Item	Location	Notes
No	1	Earn wings in the flight simulator at the Highlands Museum	Ashland
No	2	Spend the night at Waverly Hills Sanatorium	Louisville
No	3	Dine at Beaumont Inn	Harrodsburg
No	4	Visit the Birthplace of Abe Lincoln	Hodgenville
No	5	Visit Mainstrasse Village	Covington
No	6	Explore the Capitol Building	CLOSED	TEMPORARILY CLOSED
No	7	Buy something made in Kentucky	Kentucky
Yes	8	Visit Old Fort Harrod	Harrodsburg
No	9	Search for Herry the Loch Herrington Monster	Harrodsburg
Yes	10	Attend a game at Louisville Slugger Field	Louisville
Yes	11	Attend the KY State Fair	Louisville
Yes	12	See the show at Thunder Over Louisville	Louisville
No	13	Enjoy the buffet at Michael's Restaurant	CLOSED	PERMANENTLY CLOSED
No	14	Golf at Valhalla Golf Club	Louisville
No	15	Camp under the stars at a KY State Park	Kentucky
Yes	16	Visit Hummel Planetarium	CLOSED	TEMPORARILY CLOSED
Yes	17	Attend the Kentucky Derby	Louisville
No	18	Visit the Conrad-Caldwell House Museum	Louisville
No	19	Climb Pilot Rock	Allegre
No	20	Visit Breaks Interstate Park	Elkhorn City
No	21	Attend a race at Keeneland	Lexington
No	22	Attend a UofL basketball game	Louisville
Yes	23	Eat Goetta sausage	Covington	To get a real taste, visit Goetta Fest
Yes	24	Visit the Frazier History Museum	Louisville
No	25	Buy something Amish	Kentucky
No	26	Visit Levi Jackson State Park	London
No	27	Eat at Metzger's Tavern	Henderson
No	28	Eat Burgoo	Kentucky	Check Out the Burgoo Festival in Lawrenceburg
No	29	Drink Moonshine from a jar	Kentucky
No	30	Visit Green River Lake State Park	Campbellsville
No	31	Visit Hadley Pottery	Louisville
Yes	32	Tour the Kentucky Derby Museum	Louisville
Yes	33	Hike a Trail at a KY State Park	Kentucky
Yes	34	Ride a ride at Kentucky Kingdom	Louisville
No	35	See World's Largest Stained Glass Window	Covington
No	36	Visit Fort Boonesborough, Daniel Boone’s Fort	Boonesborough
No	37	Drive through/visit a covered bridge	Kentucky	There are 11 left in KY
Yes	38	Tour Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm	Georgetown
No	39	Shop a KY Flea Markets	Kentucky
No	40	Eat Benedictine Spread with KY ingredients	Kentucky	Try Benedictine HERE at The Cafe
No	41	Attend Nibroc Festival	Corbin
Yes	42	Visit the Speed Art Museum	Louisville
Yes	43	Attend a Pow Wow	Kentucky
Yes	44	Eat Derby Pie	Kentucky	Visit the Birthplace of the Derby Pie, Kern’s Corner
No	45	Tailgate a UofL Football Game	Louisville
No	46	Visit the Thomas Edison House	Louisville
No	47	Visit White Hall Historic Site	Richmond
No	48	Attend a Russ Renbarger party	Louisville	Attend the Fillies & Stallions Derby Eve Party
No	49	Drive thru the Cumberland Gap Tunnel	Middlesboro
No	50	Buy something made from Hemp	Kentucky
No	51	Enjoy a bourbon ball	Kentucky	Try a famous Rebecca Ruth bourbon ball and tour the factory
No	52	Eat at Heirloom Restaurant	Midway
Yes	53	Visit Fort Knox	Fort Knox
No	54	Tour the Kentucky Bourbon Trail	Kentucky	Or check out the Urban Bourbon Trail
No	55	Visit Mammoth Cave	Cave City
No	56	Get Lost in Kentucky	Kentucky’	Try Atlas Obscura to go off the beaten path
Yes	57	See a concert/show at Renfro Valley	Mount Vernon
No	58	Savor Blue Monday Candy at Ruth Hunt Candies	Mt Sterling, Lexington
No	59	Attend the Court Days Festival	Mt Sterling
No	60	Cruise the Rockcastle River	Mt Vernon
No	61	Shop at Murray Court Square	Murray
No	62	Attend a Civil War Reenactment	Kentucky	KY Civil War Sites & Museums
No	63	Visit Newport on the Levee	Newport
No	64	Visit the Camp Nelson Nat’l Monument	Nicholasville
No	65	Tour a Batcave at Carters Caves State Park	Olive Hill
No	66	Eat at Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn	Owensboro
No	67	Visit Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum	Fort Mitchell
No	68	Be on boat on Lake Cumberland	Burnside
Yes	69	Dance at 4th Street Live	Louisville
No	70	See the Paducah Floodwall ‘Wall-to-Wall” Murals	Paducah
No	71	Attend the Hillbilly Days Festival	Pikeville
Yes	72	Attend a Kentucky Derby Gala	Louisville	Try the Fillies Derby Ball, the official KY Derby Gala
No	73	View the "Cut Through"	Pikeville
No	74	Walk the West Prestonsburg Bridge	Prestonsburg
No	75	Eat fried chicken at the Claudia Sanders Dinner House	Shelbyville
No	76	Eat at Miguel's Pizza	Slade
No	77	Enjoy the view from Natural Bridge	Slade
No	78	Attend a show at the Lancaster Grand Theatre	Lancaster
No	79	Attend a race at the Kentucky Motor Speedway	Sparta
No	80	Drive the Country Music Highway	Staffordsville
No	81	Ride on the Big South Fork Railroad	Stearns
No	82	Discover Swift’s Silver Mine	Campton
No	83	Watch an Appalachian film	Kentucky	For films set in Appalachia, go HERE. For films set in KY go HERE
Yes	84	Drink an Ale-8-One	Winchester
Yes	85	Eat Beer Cheese at Hall's on the River	Winchester
No	86	Attend Garrard County Tobacco Cutting Contest	Lancaster
No	87	Explore the Cumberland Gap Nat’l Historic Park	Middlesboro
Yes	88	Visit Dinosaur World	Cave City
Yes	89	Visit Constitution Square	Danville
No	90	Feed the ducks at Noble Park	Paducah
No	91	Visit the Lilley Cornett Woods	Letcher Co
Yes	92	Go Fishing at Land Between the Lakes	Golden Pond
No	93	Go Line Dancing	Kentucky	Take a line dancing class and bust a move!
No	94	Hike to Yahoo Falls	Whitley City
No	95	See a spring warbler at Jenny Wiley State Park	Prestonsburg	Here are 10 warblers to look for in spring
No	96	Attend Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour	Lexington
Yes	97	Cruise on the Belle of Louisville	Louisville
No	98	Listen to a Bluegrass music jam session	Kentucky	Visit the Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Museum while you’re at it!
Yes	99	Visit Daniel Boone’s grave	Frankfort
No	100	See the Mother Goose House	Hazard
No	101	Make/drink a mint julep	Kentucky
No	102	Attend the Mountain Laurel Festival	Pineville
No	103	See a Movie at the Kentucky Theatre	Lexington
No	104	Visit the National Quilt Museum	Paducah
Yes	105	Attend the KY Sweet 16 HS Basketball Tournament	Lexington	KHSAA Basketball
No	106	Attend a political speech at the Fancy Farm Picnic	Fancy Farm
No	107	Play golf at Burnside Island State Park	Burnside
No	108	Ride a Bicycle in a KY park	Kentucky	Visit an Olmsted Park in Louisville
No	109	Ride My Old KY Dinner Train	Bardstown
No	110	See a show at Pioneer Playhouse	Danville
No	111	Ride the Valley View Ferry	Richmond
No	112	Attend the Rosemary Clooney Music Festival	Maysville
No	113	Savor Bread Pudding	Kentucky	Visit Selena’s in Middletown for an amazing bread pudding
No	114	Go Scuba diving at Falling Rock Quarry	LaGrange
No	115	See a bank robbed by Jesse James	Kentucky
No	116	Sing My Old Kentucky Home in Bardstown	Bardstown
No	117	Eat a hot brown at Brown Hotel	Louisville
No	118	Attend a Lexington Legends Game	Lexington
Yes	119	Visit Kentucky Down Under	Cave City
No	120	See a Bison	Kentucky
No	121	See a ghost at Bobby Mackey’s Music World	CLOSED	TEMPORARILY(?) CLOSED
Yes	122	Visit the Louisville Mega Cavern	Louisville
No	123	Eat at the Original KFC (Sander’s Cafe)	Corbin
No	124	Become a Kentucky Colonel	Kentucky
No	125	See a Rock Fence	Kentucky
No	126	Attend a UK basketball game	Lexington
No	127	Buy produce at a roadside stand	Kentucky	Go HERE for roadside stands, or HERE for farmers markets
Yes	129	Tour National Corvette Museum	Bowling Green
No	130	See a show at the Lexington Opera House	Lexington
Yes	131	Visit the KY Science Center	Louisville
No	133	See barn swallows at Dinsmore House	Burlington
No	134	Stroll the Arboretum	Lexington
No	135	See an exotic animal at the Louisville Zoo	Louisville
No	136	See Lizard Head Rock	Olive Hill
No	137	Tailgate a UK football Game	Lexington
No	138	See the Moonbow at Cumberland Falls	Corbin
No	139	See the Stephen Foster Story	Bardstown
No	140	Share silence with a monk in a monastery	Kentucky	Visit the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery
No	141	Shop Florence Mall Y'all	Florence
No	142	Shop for antiques	Kentucky
No	143	Sip some Cider	Kentucky	Sip some cider at the Apple Festival in Paintsville
No	144	Sip some KY Bourbon	Kentucky	Learn all about KY Bourbon
No	145	Visit Ashland, Henry Clay’s historic mansion	Lexington
No	146	Sit in the Outhouse at Penn's Store	Gravel Switch
No	147	Sit inside Cane Ridge Meeting House	Paris
No	148	Spend the night at Wigwam Village	Cave City
No	149	Spend time in the 1811 Historic Jail	Augusta
No	150	Spot a Celebrity	Kentucky	Meet lots of celebrities at a KY Derby party
No	151	Stroll through an old cemetery	Kentucky	Try Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville for a nice afternoon stroll
No	152	Watch the sunset on a Kentucky Lake	Kentucky
No	153	Swing a bat at Louisville Slugger Museum	Louisville
No	154	Take a Ghost Walk	Kentucky
No	155	Take a walk through wild flowers	Kentucky	Try Bernheim Forest or Yew Dell Gardens
No	156	Taste a Microbrew Beer	Kentucky
No	157	Visit the Tomb of Henry Wooldridge	Mayfield
No	158	Toss a coin in the fountain at Triangle Park	Lexington
No	159	Visit Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site	Wickliffe
No	160	Tour a KY horse farm	Kentucky
Yes	161	Kayak the KY River Palisades	Lexington
No	162	Visit a Governor's Birthplace	Kentucky	Try visiting the birthplace of Gov Thomas E Bramlette, 23rd governor
No	163	Visit a local winery	Kentucky
No	164	Visit a Wildlife Sanctuary	Kentucky
No	165	Visit John James Audubon State Park	Henderson
No	166	Visit Blue Licks Battlefield State Park	Carlisle
No	167	Visit the Bobby Davis Museum	Hazard
No	168	Eat at Wheeler Pharmacy	Lexington
No	169	Attend the World Chicken Festival	London
Yes	170	Take a picture of the Kentucky Castle	Lexington
No	171	Visit the Grave of Henry Clay	Lexington
No	172	Attend Abbey Road on the River Music Festival	Louisville
No	173	Visit the Fitchburg Furnace	Ravenna
No	174	Visit Red River Gorge	Slade	For a real treat, go kayaking underground
No	175	Visit the Octagon Hall Museum	Franklin
No	176	Attend a horse race at Red Mile	Lexington
No	177	Visit Loretta Lynn's Butcher Holler	Van Lear
Yes	178	Visit the Mary Todd Lincoln House	Lexington
No	179	Visit the Aviation Museum of KY	Lexington
No	180	Visit the Muhammad Ali Center	Louisville
No	181	Visit a one-room schoolhouse	Kentucky
No	182	See the Southern Lights at the KY Horse Park	Georgetown
No	183	Visit the Randall McCoy grave site	Pikeville
No	184	Tour the Old State Capitol	Frankfort
No	185	Visit Rockcastle Trading Post	Mt Vernon
Yes	186	Visit Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill	Harrodsburg
No	187	Visit RockHouse on the River	Henderson
No	188	Visit a KY town with an unusual name	Kentucky
No	189	Visit Viceroy Butterfly Garden	Oak Grove
No	190	Visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial	Frankfort
No	191	Tour the Toyota Plant	Georgetown
No	192	Visit Wolf Creek Fish Hatchery	Jamestown
No	193	Visit the statue of Man O' War	Lexington
No	194	Visit the World Peace Bell	Newport
No	195	Visit the world's smallest chapel	Crestview Hills
No	196	Tour the Thomas D. Clark Center	Frankfort
Yes	197	Wear a UK (or UofL) shirt to sporting event	Kentucky	Visit UK Athletics (or UofL Athletics) for schedules