This is a one mile trail with lights + music in Beckley Creek Park. It was a great place to meet up…read morewith family and do something festive while being outdoors. There are two light tunnels/tents, a 2020 sign, a peacock, dinosaurs, a gift box installation, lit tree-lined paths and a Peace light field timed to music. It could be as quick as a 20 min walk or you can milk it as my family did with funny dances, posed photos and stops at the Around Town Deli food truck for boozy/virgin warm beverages. We loved the mulled wine and spiked hot cocoa - we weren't fans of the flaming pumpkin. Tickets purchased online with selection of entry times. We picked one of the last of the night so it was empty when we left (made for great pics and less people around). Four stars as it was $20 for adults and $13 for kiddos (3-12). And there were some dark parts of path unlit so we had to use our phones to light the way. Some paths were gravel and a bit muddy so keep that in mind as you select footwear. Open til Jan 3, 2021. Tip: dress warmly and maybe bring some hand warmers!

What a great night to visit this light show. The weather was perfect and I was able to get in early…read moreto enjoy the trail. There are two separate food trucks, lil cheesers and one that offers hot chocolate (spiked or otherwise), and cider. Great for family night out or a date night. Highly recommend.

The Taste of St Rita is an annual community taste tour event in the okolona community of Lousiville…read moreKentucky. The event is held in okolona staple St Rita's gymnasium off Preston Highway and is usually held in late January or February. The event itself started in 2015 and always features some of the city and states best restaurants and distilleries coming in and offering samples of their food and drink to the public. The event also usually hosts live music and auctions. I attended a few of the early events and always had a lot of fun. The event ran from 2015-2019 and grew every year in size and popularity. It took a few year hiatus due to the pandemic and made its triumphant return in 2023. The 2023 event came back with a bang and was a fun night for all. The event had by my count 23 food and drink vendors, music by a great local artist named George Stearman and even featured a 7 foot glowing and dancing robot. The event also had nice silent auction items that was held upstairs off the Taste floor and dance floor and had some high end bourbon raffles for sale that features some of Kentucky's hardest to find and finest bourbons. This event was electric on my most recent visit. Plenty of dancing, laughing, and good eating and drinking was going around. The sense of community here was wonderful. The setup of the event featured the food and drink vendors lined up on the outside walls of the gym and you make a rectangle pattern to visit them all. In the middle where the basketball court is features the bar stools and sit down tables for people to stop and enjoy the food and drink samples. In the very back corner of the gym is where the artists and dj setup. And next to that on a garage door they had Onetouch media photography company taking keepsake photos with a photo backdrop of the event. Some of the 2023 vendors that were offering samples were lunas Mexican rotisserie, Tito's handmade vodka, marks feed store, healthy chance nutrition, Bardstown bourbon company, Latin cafe and bakery, craft house pizza/hometown brewing, roosters, Jerusalem Kitchen, Noble Funk brewery, Cadillacs chicken and fish, river green cocktails, Royal prestige, highbrew coffee, four pegs, art eatables, el nopal, popcorn station, Tuscany Italian and log still distillery. So despite being around 400 people there was all kinds of food and drinks. If you left hungry then you have nobody to blame as the vendors came prepared and you had so many different food styles and choices from some Lousiville area staples. You also left thirsty or sober for that matter by choice as there was several drinks both alcoholic and non alcoholic available Admission for the event in 2023 was $40 or you could go in with 5 others and reserve a table for $320 that guaranteed you a sit down table and admission for 6 people. For general admission you do not have a seat but do have access to table top bar stools spread throughout the taste floor. I've done general admission and VIP tables in the past and you can't go wrong either way. Good value between all the food and drinks to go with live music. I always joke I drink $40 worth of bourbon samples every year I go so I'm ahead before I Even get to the food and live music included. Overall the taste of st Rita is always a great time and is one of the city of Lousiville premier Taste tour events that always features heavy hitter eateries, distilleries and breweries of the Lousiville area at the event. I've made the comment that taste tours are perfect events for yelpers. I know my local "to visit" list on Yelp grew exponentially after this years visit. Not sure i can think of a better way of spending an evening than hanging with friends, watching live entertainment with an insane variety of food and drinks at my fingertips. Just a Great and fun way to support and try local foods and drinks while enjoying local artists perform for you.

The taste of Saint Rita is a fantastic event in the okolona community that is put on by Saint Rita…read moreCatholic school. The event is a one night extravaganza of food and drinks and fun. My friends and I attended the event on a Saturday evening and there were many drink and food vendors that we enjoyed partaking in their wonderful food and drink. It's a flat fee that you pay to get into the event you get a wristband that includes all you can eat food and all you can drink drinks. It's a wonderful event and I look forward to next year's.

One of the best Art Fairs around. Minus St. James and the former Art In Speed Park you gotta…read moreattend this. Hundreds of booths. Great people watching. Plenty of food and drink. This is the place you want to be. Make sure you go next time.

This is a wonderful local arts festival including artists from outside Louisville that I attended…read morethis year for the third time since moving to the city more than 12 years ago. In fact, shortly after I moved here, a prestigious local professional recommended I attend it. The neighborhood is gorgeous, and the art fair is well organized and thought out. I was glad to see food from Kingsley's was featured as it has great food. I like this art fair just as much as the St. James one if not better. If you are looking for a nice, fun activity and enjoy being outside and art, this festival is especially for you. There also is jewelry, soap and lotion, and other items sold. Wine and mimosas are available for purchase as well.

Surprised my husband with a visit here. This year they had people walk through instead of driving…read more I much prefer to walk the trail. Apparently there is a hidden pumpkin but we weren't told until near the end. It was interesting to see how they repurposed items from the Halloween event. We were disappointed they didn't have any merch to buy at the end. We had hoped to buy an ornament. Overall it is cute for a date night but definitely not as spectacular as the Halloween event.

The winter woods spectacular is a annual holiday lights event held in Iroquois park in Lousiville…read moreKentucky. You enter in at the new cut road and southern parkway entrance. When you hit the fork you take a left down the "one way". There is suppose to be a guy flagging or waving you on but on our visit he just sat there so we thought he was telling us to not go that way and we ended up taking a 3 mile detour through the park and and circling around. You can buy tickets at the main entrance booth once you go the right way or you can purchase online. The online pre purchase is recommended because evidently they can sell out. Pricing is pretty high. It is $35 a car load. I will say this. It's is very pretty and cool but extremely repetitive. You drive very slowly through a wooded trail for a mile or so. The woods is decorated with ginger bread house facades and other holiday type buildings. They have a lot of fake stained glass Christmas's decor of popular Christmas figures, movie/tv stars and cartoons. They have Christmas music playing in different sections throughout. At the very end they do have a cool Ferris wheel penguin decoration that leads you into a beautiful tunnel of lights you drive under. Which is the highlight of the visit. Overall I can say me and the kids finally experienced this. The workers here all kinda had a bad attitude and seemed lazy. Which I get it. It's cold and nobody likes working during the holidays. But if you are charging $35 a carload for Christmas fun then maybe act like you want to be there. As mentioned the decorations were very lovely and pretty. But we all was disappointed in how repetitive it was. They could of really broke it off in sections and each section having a different theme or decor style and it would be immensely better. I'm not sure we will come back unless major changes are made. I'm glad we finally did and seen this yearly attraction. However, if every year is exactly the same it just isn't worth seeing twice. There is all kinds of cool free light shows in Lousiville that offers more variety.

What a fabulous time!…read more Learning how to make mint juleps so I don't have to buy it pre-mixed and impress visitors. Delicious, AMAZING bourbon balls from Cellar Door. Fun games and meeting some new people. And some fun schwag to boot! I'll have to go back and actually eat at the restaurant sometime. The food I saw people eating looked amazing.

"Yelp Does Derby" is Decadent and Depraved…read more If there was any real wagering at this party, somehow I missed it. But I did not miss out on the river of bourbon, chocolate, and cheeses. In fact, I don't think I came up for air. Best of all, no horses or jockeys were killed or maimed in the process. My mint julep tumbler runneth over.

Cool and obscure wall art mural located on the highlands portion of Louisville right before the doo…read morewop shop and the individual parking garage. A local artist take on Kentucky's Mount Rushmore with Muhammed Ali, Abraham Lincoln, colonel sanders and horse legend secretariat. Not sure those would be the 4 I'd choose to represent Kentucky but it still a really cool rendition and fun photo op. Over the next few weeks I plan on checking out all kinds of Louisville's public art. I've started in the highlands today and within extremely close walking distance of this mural is two other cool public art spots in the sculpture "homeless Jesus" and the "spirit of highlands" wall mural. Overall cool addition to the local art scene. A fun one as it can open the debate. Who is your Mount Rushmore of Kentucky?

I am always on the look put for unique and interesting street art and this is no exception. The…read morepainting is of Louisville's four favorite sons, Muhammad Ali, Abraham Lincoln, Colonel Sanders, and racing horse and triple crown winner, Secretariat. It is located in the highland area of Louisville. The Mural was supposed to be a giant mountain sculpture, similar to Mount Rushmore. However, funding could not even come close to that very ambitious goal, so they had to settle for the mural. The mural was created by Margaret Morely in 2013 and is on the side of the original WHY Louisville store, which is now Sweet Spot Candy Shop. The mural is tucked in between the candy shop and the Doo Wop Shop, a musical instrument store. It is in a little ally way that leads to the Doo Wop Shop's parking area. Sadly, the Muhammad Ali image has been the target of vandals on a few occasions, with orange paint. There is always someone that wants to be a jerk and ruin things. There is lots of street parking available to for you to get out and check out the mural. It is hard to get a good look from your car becuse the street that it is on is so busy and it is located in a small alleyway. It is not a long stop unless you plan on visiting one of the shops while you are there.

Jeffersonville is a historic city directly to the north of Louisville, Kentucky on the Indiana…read moreside. The city sits on the Ohio River and has an interesting history and architecture. The city was founded when the area was part of the Virginia Territory, before Indiana was a state (about 1800). The location on the Ohio River made the town important for maritime trade. We found the architecture interesting with a mix dating back to the 1800's up to Mid Century Modern. The former Beaux-Arts style Carnegie Library was particularly beautiful with its bronze dome. A nice tenant at the library invited us in to tour the remodeled interior. The classic portrait of Carnegie stands prominent. Historic Warden Park is a small park with a Veterans Memorial, gazebo and a statue of the city's name sake, Thomas Jefferson. The waterfront has been revitalized with an amphitheater. The former Big 4 Railroad Bridge has been converted to a pedestrian bridge, so people can walk from Jefferson across the Ohio River into Louisville, Kentucky. There are several waterfront restaurants with great views of the beautiful river. The setting is peaceful and we enjoyed walking along the waterfront. A historical marker describes how Jeffersonville was an important hub for the Underground Railroad, offering passage to points North and freedom for enslaved individuals. Jeffersonville is worth a visit if you like history in a beautiful setting without the crowds. We found free street parking throughout the city.

Walked to the city of Jeffersonville, Indiana. The Big Four Pedestrian Bridge crosses over the…read moreOhio River. We started in Louisville, Kentucky and used the bridge to walk to Jeffersonville, Indiana. Well worth the walk! Jeffersonville, Indiana is a cool place to stop by as a visitor. Apparently, it is also a cool place to live. They were ranked in the Top 50 best places to live in the U.S.A. by Money magazine in 2022. Check out this little city for yourself.

Cool Mural located in the theatre district of Lousiville and viewable from Broadway in downtown…read moreLousiville. Mural pats tribute to severe Lousiville legends from ali to basketball too col sanders and even to the fact that happy Birthday was written by a Lousiville woman. A true collage of Lousiville legends sit upon this mural. Overall a really cool piece to the downtown area and the louisvilel pibloc art scene. If I had one complaint or would be for them to use red (color of Joel university) and not blue.

A bold, black, white and blue mural on 4th Street, diagonal from the Brown Hotel. This piece…read morecelebrates all the things that make Louisville famous! This mural has everything! (gets ready to list things a la Stefon from SNL) Colonel Sanders, Corvettes, Churchill Downs, the Happy Birthday song, Muhammad Ali, basketball, bourbon, disco balls, horses, hot browns, mint juleps, music, the Ohio River, food, bridges, and outdoor/natural spaces. Simple, clean, modern. I like it.