district field guide
Downtown
Bourbon, museums, and the Ohio River
Downtown Louisville brings together Whiskey Row, Museum Row, and South Fourth Street, with museums, distillery experiences, restaurants, nightlife, performance venues, and outdoor activities along the Ohio River.
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Ten places to start
A visual guide to featured places, not a walking route or directions.
- Attraction Angel's Envy Distillery 500 E Main St
- Attraction Big Four Bridge 1101 River Rd
- Restaurant Doc Crow's 127 W Main St
- Attraction Evan Williams Bourbon Experience 528 W Main St
- Attraction Frazier Kentucky History Museum 829 W Main St
- Attraction Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. 120 N 10th St
- Attraction Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory 800 W Main St
- Attraction Michter's Fort Nelson Distillery 801 W Main St
- Attraction Old Forester Distillery 119 W Main St
- Park Waterfront Park 129 River Rd
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Angel's Envy Distillery
Downtown distillery offering guided production tours and tastings focused on bourbon making and Angel's Envy's barrel-finishing process.
500 E Main St, Louisville, KY
- guided tours
- tastings
- cocktail bar
Big Four Bridge
Pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Ohio River connecting Waterfront Park in Louisville with Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Visitor entrance: 1101 River Rd, Louisville, KY
- outdoors
- walking
- biking
Doc Crow's
Whiskey Row restaurant serving Southern food, slow-smoked barbecue, fresh seafood, oysters, breakfast, cocktails, and whiskey.
127 W Main St, Louisville, KY
- southern food
- barbecue
- seafood
Evan Williams Bourbon Experience
Whiskey Row visitor experience combining bourbon history, an operating artisanal still, guided tours, tastings, and the ON3 Bar.
528 W Main St, Louisville, KY
- bourbon history
- guided tours
- tastings
Frazier Kentucky History Museum
Kentucky history museum with artifacts, exhibitions, guided tours, and the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Welcome Center.
829 W Main St, Louisville, KY
- kentucky history
- museum
- bourbon
Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co.
Downtown Louisville distillery offering a grain-to-bottle production tour and guided bourbon and rye tastings.
120 N 10th St, Louisville, KY
- grain to bottle tour
- bourbon and rye tastings
- advance tour booking
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
Baseball museum and working bat factory with daily factory tours, exhibits, a Bat Vault, a batting cage, and the 120-foot Big Bat outside.
800 W Main St, Louisville, KY
- baseball
- factory tour
- museum
Michter's Fort Nelson Distillery
Downtown Louisville distillery offering guided whiskey-production tours and tastings, plus The Bar at Fort Nelson.
801 W Main St, Louisville, KY
- whiskey tours
- guided tastings
- cocktail bar
Old Forester Distillery
Working Whiskey Row distillery where guided tours cover fermentation, distillation, barrel making, maturation, bottling, and tastings.
119 W Main St, Louisville, KY
- production tour
- barrel making
- tastings
Waterfront Park
Public park along the Ohio River with lawns, walking paths, playgrounds, picnic areas, public art, event spaces, and the Big Four Bridge.
129 River Rd, Louisville, KY
- outdoors
- riverfront
- walking