Bardstown Offers
• Easy access to 10 unique distilleries that host tours and tastings
• Over 300 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places – nearly 200 of them downtown!
• Multiple bourbon-centric points of interest including the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
• One of the nation’s oldest taverns, Old Talbott Tavern, established way back in 1779!
• Shops that stock bourbon and other locally-made products
Plan Your Trip to Bardstown
Explore the 3-Night Itinerary


Come Find Bourbon in Covington, Frankfort, and Bardstown.
Pack a whole lot of bourbon-related fun into a three night getaway!
Check out our Bardstown itinerary. Click here.
Bourbon Comes from Bardstown
Dubbed the Bourbon Capital of the World®, Bardstown was selected as “The Most Beautiful Small Town in America” in the Rand McNally & USA Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest and landed in the top 20 of “America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure – which also recognized Bardstown as having one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town Squares.” In 2013, Bardstown was designated a certified Kentucky Cultural District, one of only six Kentucky cities to achieve this honor.
Explore Bardstown’s unique distilleries.

