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The NEW Highway 68-80 brochures have just arrived from the printer featuring 22 of the 60 communities along this 400 mile historic route!
Did you know...
Carlisle County has become the host of The Big Rivers State Championship BBQ Cookoff held in Bardwell the 3rd weekend in June and sanctioned by the Kansas City BBQ Society!
Marshall County is home to not one but two state parks...Kentucky Dam Village and Kentucky Lake State Resort Park. And if you have not been to Cadiz lately, it is a "must stop". They have some of the BEST antique malls around!
Did you know....
Hopkinsville was home to Edgar Cayce, world renowned clairvoyant.
And Elkton has renovated their 1835 Courthouse in the center of town and it has become a tourist welcome center with 20 other buildings around it placed on the National Register of Historic Places. And if you come to Todd County, you must stop the Jefferson Davis Monument as well as some of the Amish local businesses including Schlabach's Bakery...Delicious!
Logan County boasts its historic jail, the Bibb House, Saddle Factory, and both the Shaker Museum and Auburn's historical museum. And Bowling Green has the Corvette Museum, Beech Bend Park, Lost River Cave and so much more!
Glasgow, Home of the Highland Games and the South Central Cultural Center and Barren River State Park. And don't miss the Lighthouse Restaurant in Sulfur Well Kentucky which is known far and wide for its mouthwatering country ham and biscuits.
Did you know....
Greensburg boasts the oldest courthouse west of the Alleghenies and has a wonderful historic downtown featuring numerous shops and restaurants?
And one must check out Campbellsville which features the Atkinson Griffen House, the Jacob Heistand House and the granite monument marking the site where 20 Confederate bodies were buried.
Tour Historic Shaker Village, take a cruise on the Dixie Bell - an authentic sternwheeler, or spend the night at Beaumont Inn, Kentucky's oldest family-operated country inn.
Stop by Camp Nelson in Jessamine County and if you have never been to Paris, here is your chance. Just north of Lexington, it is a wonderful historic town which includes twelve antique shops, other shops and wonderful restaurants.
Last but not least (and first if you start from the east end of Hwy 68) is wonderful Robertson County, home to Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park and the communities of Mt. Olivet, Kentontown, Bridgeville and Pinhook.
400 miles of historic highway, passing through nearly 60 small forgotten communities along the way. Come revisit your past and rediscover "small town USA" all along the way.
And if you come June 1st -4th, you can take part in the 400 Mile Sale which goes from start to finish and back again with special events, hundreds of yard sales, discounts, bargains and so much more all four days!!!
Order your FREE 4-color brochure today which includes a fold out map of the route and we will include a booklet of special coupons for places along the route (limited supply of these). Call (270)781-6858 or visit our website at trailsrus.com
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