Clermont Area

You will explore one more suggestion in this list of the best day trips from Kentucky - Clermont Area. The Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont Area, Kentucky, offers a full day of exploration and recreation. Enjoy woodland trails (and enormous carved creatures!) as you stroll around the lake and boardwalk. After that, you can visit the neighboring Jim Beam American Stillhouse to see one of the most well-known distilleries in the world. Tours are now suspended, but eighth-generation distiller Freddie Noe delivers a weekly online show that tells the tale of this legendary bourbon. Then proceed to Forest Edge Winery for a taste and a relaxing stop on the patio afterward.

Bernheim, Kentucky's official state arboretum, offers a visitor center with an open, airy design and the most recent "green" building methods, as well as a 16,000-acre animal refuge. Bernheim provides numerous possibilities to appreciate and learn about nature. It is full of indoor and outdoor exhibitions, such as the Forest Giants, canopy tree walk, scent and sound mazes, and new trails and walkways.

If you want to discover how seven generations ignited a global craze that is today the world's No. 1 Bourbon, come to the legacy of Kentucky's "first family" of Bourbon. Visit the American Stillhouse in Clermont, the birthplace of Jim Beam, to take one of the several interactive tours.

Location: Clermont, Kentucky, The U.S