Bardstown Offers
• Easy access to 9 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.

