Long Weekend
3 days · ~300 miles · from Lexington, KY
Horse country to cave country the reverent way: a preserved Shaker village, a Trappist abbey, Lincoln's birthplace and the bourbon trail's holiest distilleries — Kentucky's sacred and spirituous in one weekend.
This trip chains: Bourbon, Bluegrass & Shakers
Keeneland and the horse farms at dawn, then Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill — the largest restored Shaker community in America, worth a slow afternoon and a night in its plain, perfect rooms.
Kentucky's great Civil War battlefield at Perryville, then the bourbon heartland: Maker's Mark's dipped bottles, the silence of the Abbey of Gethsemani, and Bardstown's old streets for the night.
The marble temple over Lincoln's log cabin at Hodgenville, a night in a wigwam at Cave City if you dare, and the great dark of Mammoth Cave before the drive home.