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Bardstown,
KY Named Among Top Ten ‘Best Southern Small Towns’
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USA TODAY
and 10Best readers say The Bourbon Capital of the World is No. 3
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Bardstown,
KY – June 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / Bardstown, KY, the Bourbon Capital
of the World, has done it again: “The Most Beautiful Small Town in America”
has been named one of the “10 Best Southern Small Towns,” as chosen by
readers of USA TODAY and 10Best. See contest results here: www.10Best.com/awards/travel/Best-Southern-Small-Town.
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Landing
in the number three spot on the list, Bardstown was cited for its abundance
of bourbon distilleries; there are now six, including Barton 1792, Willett
Distillery, Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark, Jim Beam and Four Roses’ second
campus – the latter four on the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®. A seventh
distiller, the Bardstown Bourbon Company, will open in Bardstown in 2016
and offer a destination experience with a culinary dimension.
“Underage
or tee totaling visitors, however, will find there’s still plenty to do,
including shopping, golf and historic attractions,” the write-up notes.
The
recognition comes on the heels of Bardstown leading TheCultureTrip.com’s
list of the “10 Most Beautiful Towns in Kentucky. It was ranked among “the
best of the best” in Fodor’s Second Annual List of “America’s Best Small
Towns” and selected by AARP as one of its “10 Best Small Towns.” The Kentucky
Bourbon Festival, held annually in September in Bardstown, was ranked among
“Kentucky’s 10 Best Summer Events: Art Exhibitions to Food Festivals” by
TheCultureTrip.com and Bardstown’s Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
was chosen as Whisky Magazine’s 2014 “Visitor Attraction
of the Year.”
Additionally,
readers of Travel + Leisure chose Bardstown as one of “America’s
Favorite Towns,” acknowledging it has one of “America’s Most Beautiful
Town Squares,” and Rand McNally/USA TODAY named Bardstown the “Most Beautiful
Small Town in America” in 2012.
Bardstown’s
distilleries and major attractions such as the Broadway-style musical,
“The Stephen Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, Kentucky Railway
Museum and the Civil War of the Western Theatre, plus its shopping, dining
and 17 bed and breakfast inns add to the luster of this award-winning destination.
Come see why readers of USA TODAY and 10Best and lots of other publications
and outlets say Bardstown is the best. www.VisitBardstown.com
Media
Contact:
Dawn
Przystal, Vice President
800-638-4877
x 114
Bardstown-Nelson
County Tourist & Convention Commission
Photo:
Bardstown, KY, is America’s No. 3 Best Southern Small Town.
Credit:
Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission
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and Low-Res photos available.
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About
Bardstown, KY
Located
in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead
of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown
is more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home
to five distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery, and
these three Kentucky Bourbon Trail distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark
and Jim Beam. Major attractions include the outdoor musical, “The Stephen
Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Home State Park, the highly regarded Civil
War Museum of the Western Theatre, My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, The Kentucky
Railway Museum and Whisky Magazine’s Visitor Attraction of
the Year – the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. Additionally, Bardstown
has four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries, two haunted tours and numerous
religious attractions. Fodor picked Bardstown as one of “America’s Best
Small Towns” and AARP named it one of its “10 best small towns.” It led
TheCultureTrip.com’s list of the “10 Most Beautiful Towns in Kentucky”
and was named the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America” in the Rand McNally/USA
Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest. Bardstown landed in the top 20 of
“America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure|–|which
also recognized it 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. www.facebook.com/BardstownKY |